, 1884-03-21

for all the just debts, liabilities and obligations of said
town, and shall succeed to all the real, personal and
mixed property thereof, and all ordinances of the town
of Laramie City now in force, shall remain in full force,
and shall be valid ordinances of the city of Laramie until
repealed or amended, and all such>ordinances of the said
town OF Laramie City may be proved by the certificate
of the clerk of said city of Laramie, under the seal of
the said city, and when such ordinances are printed and
published in pamphlet form, and purporting to be pub
iished by authority of the said city of Laramie, they shall
be read and received in all courts and places without
further proof.
SEC. SO. No real property, nor any improvements there
on, within the limits of seid city Of Laramie, as defined
by this act, not within the limits of the town of Laramie
City, and not within the additions made or attempted to
be made thereto by Henry ID. Hodgeman and James M.
Sherod, respectively, shall be subject to any assessment,
tax or charge for any of the purposes of said city of Lar
annie, until such time as the said real property shall be
surveyed, laid out and plated into city or town lots by
the authority of said city, by. and with the written con-
sent of the owner or owners thereof, but all property,
real, personal and mixed, not exempt from taxation by
the laws of this Territory, lying, being and included
within the limits of the town of Laramie City, as the
the said additions made or attempted to be made to
said town by the said Henry D. Hodgeman and James M.
Sherod, respectively, and all additions made or attempted
to be made to said town, the plat of which ls filed In the
office of the county clerk and erotcio register of deeds
of Albany county, Wyoming Territory, shall be subject
said city of Laramie: Provided, That nothing herein con-
tanned shall prevent any Legislative assembly of this Ter
ritory, or of any State or Territory, having said property
herein exempted from taxation within its limits from re-
pealing, amending or modifying any of the provisions of
this section.
SEC. 81. Nothing in this act contained shall be SO
construed as to confer or grant to the said town of Lara
mic City or the said city of Laramie, or to vest in them,
or either of them, any property, the title to which is In
dispute, or is now the subject of litigation, but any action,
suit or proceeding, either at law or in equity, instituted
prior to or after the passage of this act, involvingthe
title or any right or interest to any property claimed by
said town or said city, shall be prosecuted to final judg-
ment or decree, the same as if this act had not passed.
SEC. SO. The present trustees of the town of Laramie
City shall be and they are hereby constituted the council
of the city of Laramie, and the president, of said board
10 1orahv appointad and lao1ormd 70 ha Ooyor of said
city, and such officers shall hold their said offices until
their successors are elected and qualified; and it shall be
the duty of said Trustees, Immediately after the passage
of this act, to give notice of the holding of the first cleo
ton to be held under this act, to wit: on the first Tues
day of May, A. D. 1884, by causing a notice of the time
and place of holding such election, and the officers to be
chosen thereat, and shall cause such notice to be published
at least once in some newspaper published in said town
of Laramie City, or in the county of Albany. The said
trustees shall also fix one voting place in each ward,
appoint judges of election, who shall cause returns to be
made of such election to said trustees, and said trus-
tees shall canvass and declare said vote, and notify all
officers elected of their election. In case the trustees of
said town of Laramie City fail before the third Saturday
in April, A. D. 1884, to call or give notice of such first
city election, then the governor or acting governor of this
Territory shall, by proclamation, order said election to be
held.
Sec. 80. An act entitled "An Act to incorporate Lar
annie City," approved December u, 1878, and an act en-
titled Gan Act to amend an act entitled an act to incor-
porate Laramie City, approved December II, 1873, being
chapter seventythree of the Compiled Laws of Wyom.
ing approved December Is, 1877, and an act approved
December 10, 1879, entitled can Act to amend an act
entitled an act to amend an act to incorporate Laramie
City, approved December Is, 1871" and an act entitled
can Act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate
Laramie City, approved December II, 1873" approved
March 10, 1882, be and the same are hereby repealed
except sections numbered two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,
sixteen and seventeen, of the act last above mentioned,
which are hereby continued in force as provided in this
act for the purposes thereof:
Sec. 40. This act shall take effect and be in force from
and after its passage.
Approved March 9th, 1884.