, 1884-03-26
LAWS OF WYOMING,
Passed by the
EIGHTH LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
CHAPTER 8s.
Sheridan Of Town of.

warrant. The lien for taxes for corporation purposes
shall attach to all property owned by each person subject
tortaXation under this act from the day the tax list or
duplicate and warrant comes into the hands of the treas
urer.
SEC. 4s. 1t shall be the duty of the treasurer to imme-
diately proceed and collect the taxes on said duplicate by
advertising for four successive weeks in a newspaper, if
any,b be printed in said town, otherwise by posting up
notices in three public places therein, the fact that said
taxes are due and personally calling upon each and every
person or corporation so taxed, and demanding the same,
except as to non-residents, to whom he shall mail a notice
as aforesaid, postage prepaid, to his last known address;
and in the event that any portion of said tax so assessed
and levied shall remain unpaid at the expiration of thirty
days from the date of the first advertisement or of the
posting up of notices as above provided, it shall be the
duty OF said treasurer, and he shall have power to collect
the same with ten per centum additional upon said amount
as a penalty for so failing to pay SAID tax, and also all legal
costs incurred III making said collections, in the manner
and. in accordance with the provisions Of the revenue laws
of the Territory for the collection of Territorial and county
revenue, except in regard to the time of making the dis
traint of property necessary to enforce the collection of
said tax, which time shall, for the purpose of collecting
this tax, be deemed to commence with the expiration Of
the thirty days hereinbetore referred to. All deeds or
conveyances for lands so sold for taxes shall be prinaa taca
evidence of the validity of such purchase.
SEC. 40. The treasurer of said town shall so keep his
accounts as to show when and from what sources all
moneys paid to him have been derived, and to whom and
when such moneys, or any part thereof, have been paid;
his books, accounts and vouchers shall at all times be
subject to examination by said board of trustees, or any
citizen of said town, and it is hereby made the duty of
the board of trustees to examine the same at regular
meetings of such board on some day between the first and
last Monday Of March of each year, and have settlements
with SAID treasurer. Said treasurer shall receive rs COM
pensation for his services, for all moneys collected as pro-
vided in section forty-eight, five per cent; for all other
moneys coming into his hands one per cent. for receiving
the same, except such money as shall be turned over to
him by his predecessor in office, and one per cent. for dis
bursting, except such money as shall be turned over by
HIM to his successor III office.
SEC. so. 1t shall be the duty of the board of trustees
Immediately after the annual settlement with the treas
urer, to publish in a newspaper, if one be printed in said
town, or If there be no newspaper, then by posting in
three or more public places, an exhibit of the receipts and
expenditures, specifying the source Of such receipts, and
what appropriations were made, for what object, and the
specific amount of each.
Sec. 81. All warrants on the treasury shall have spec
fled therein the services or Indebtedness for which the
same are drawn, and shall be redeemed in regular order
of registration on the treasurer's books.
SEC. 50. 1t shall be the duty of the clerk to keep the
corporate seal, papers and books belonging to said town;
to attend the sittings of the board of trustees and to keep
journal OF all their proceedings; also to keep a record of all
ordinances passed by the board of trustees, which journal
and record, after the approval of each sitting of the board,
shall be signed by the mayor and attested by the clerk;
to issue all licenses authorized by this act upon the pre-
sentation of the receipt of the treasurer that the money
therefor has been paid to said treasurer; to attest all war
rants, bonds and licenses issued in pursuance of the orders
and ordinances of the trustees; ahiX the corporate seal
thereto; to keep an account, in a suitable book, under
appropriate heads, of all warrants drawn on the treasury;
an account of all licenses issued, date of issue and amount,
and shall perform all other duties appertaining to his
office and required of him by the bylaws.
Sec. SO. The marshal of said town shall possess the
same powers and be subject to the liabilities possessed and
conferred by statute upon constables, in executing the
orders of the trustees, or in enforcing the bylaws and
ordinances of said town.
SEC. 81. 1t shall be the duty of the street supervisor
to superintend the opening, widening, grading and i'm,
proving of streets, avenues, alleys or lanes within the
limits of the corporation, and the building and repairing
of sidewalks therein the paving, curbing and guttering
of all streets and avenues, and the filling of the same;
the building of bridges, culverts and foot walks across
the streets; all improvements of the squares, or areas
formed by the crossing of streets within the corporation;
the grading, fencing, ornamenting and other improve
ment of all burial and cemetery grounds, and the avenues
leading thereto, owned by such town; the construction
OF walks therein and the rpnrInp and DrOtnptinu nf prn
mental shade trees therein, and see that none of the pro-
visions of ordinances relating to burial and cemetery
grounds are violated, and report all such violations to the
board of trustees to see that the provisions of this act
concerning the working upon the streets by the male citi-
zens of said town are complied with, and collect and
receipt for all moneys paid in lieu thereof, and pay over
the same into the treasury of said town; also perform the
duties required of the marshal by section ~thirty-two of
this act, in reference to the working upon the streets of
persons convicted Of violations of this act, or of bylaws
and ordinances passed under the provisions of this act,
and perform all other duties relating to his office and
required of him by the trustees or by ordinance.
SEC. So. The fire wardens shall attend all fires and
give their personal superintendent to eXtinguishing the