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be prosecuted before the mayor, upon warrant issued by
such mayor, as in case of misdemeanor, and such person,
upon conviction, shall stand committed until the fine and
costs be paid or replevied according to the provisions of
section thirty-two. 0
SEC. "a. Whenever any suit shall be instituted by
said town in any of the courts of this Territory, said
town shall not be required to show its compliance with
the provisions of this act as to its organization or publ
cation of its bylaws or ordinances, unless the same be
controverted by affidavit.
SEC. -35. All ordinances of the town may be proved
by the certificate of the clerk, under the seal of the
town, and when printed or published in book or pam
phlet form, and purporting to be published by authority
of the town, shall be read and received in all courts and
places without further proof, .a...t -s
SEC. SO. All actions brought to recover any penalty
or fine incurred under this act or bylaws and ordinances
made in pursuance thereof, shall be brought in the cor
porate name of the town, and the recoveries upon the
same, when collected, shall be paid into the treasury of
said town the process in every such action shall be a
warrant, and the person named in such warrant shall be
arrested and forthwith taken before the mayor for trial.
SEC. 81. The board of trustees shall keep a journal
of all their proceedings and all their meetings shall be
public.
SEC. SO. No account or claim against said town shall
be audited or allowed by the board of trustees unless it
be made out fully itemized and properly subscribed and
sworn to, and every such account shall be numbered from
one upwards, in the order of their presentation, and II
memorandum of the same entered upon a book to be
kept exclusively for that purpose. f.t,
See. 80. No account or claim shall be paid unless
properly subscribed and sworn to, audited and allowed
by the board as aforesaid; and no money shall be drawn
from the treasury except upon a warrant drawn upon the
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SEC. 40. The town incorporated by this act shall not
have power to borrow money or incur any debt or liza
hility unless the citizen owners of f~ve-eights ca of the
property taxable in such town as evidenced by the assess
ment roll of the preceding year, petition the board
of trustees to contract such debt or'loan; and any such
petition shall have attached thereto an affidavit verifying
the genuineness of the signatures to the same, and for
any debt created thereby the trustees shall add to the
tax duplicate OF each year, successfully, a levy sufficient
to pay the annual interest on such debt or loan, with an
addition to create a sinking fund for the liquidation of
the principal thereof: Proeded, That in no case shall the
levy for such purposes exceed two mills on the dollar in
any one year. H Fs-t bad Fu f -' b"
SEC. Al. The clerk, assessor, treasurer, marshal and
street supervisor shall, within ten days from the date of
their appointment or election, each and severally, give
bonds, payable to the Territory of Wyoming, with two
sufficient sureties, to such an amount as the board of
trustees shall direct, but the bonds of the treasurer shall
not be less than double the amount of the estimated tax
duplicate for the current year. tHr 80
SEC. AZ. All books, and vouchers, together viii all
money and other property belonging to the corporation,
and in the charge or possession of any officer of the same,
shall be delivered to his successor when qualified.
adSEC. 43. The board of trustees shall, before the third
Tuesday of April of each year after the town shall have
been incorporated, determine the amount of general tax
for the current year. .t'
to taxation within the corporate limits of said town at its
true cash value, and shall make returns of his assessment
April of each year, and shall receive for his services as
such assessor six (S6) dollars per day for the time actually
employed in making said assessment.
SEC. 45. The board of trustees and assessor of the
town shall constitute a board for the equalization of the
assessment of the several persons in the town, substan-
tally in the same manner as is required of the county
boards of equalization, and they shall hold a special
meeting at the office of the town clerk in the town of
Sheridan within five days after the return of the assess
ment roll in each year, and shall have the right to adjourn
such meeting from day to day for not more than three
days and at such meeting they shall add to said assess
ment roll any taxable property in the town not included
in the assessment as returned by the assessor, and shall
assess the value thereof, and shall hear and determine
the complaints of all persons feeling aggrieved by the
assessment of their property as returned by the assessor,
and for the purpose of equalizing the assessment roll
may increase, diminish or otherwise alter and correct
any ssessmen Provided, 1t shall be the duty of the
clerk of the board of trustees to give notice to each per-
son, company or corporation whose assessment has been
raised by the board of equalization, stating the amount
of such raise or increase Of assessment as aforesaid. Such
notice may be given by personal service or by statement,
either written or printed, postage prepaid by mail, prop
erly addressed to such person, company or corporation,
or to the agent or agents or attorney, or any of them, of
such person, company or corporation, either of whom
may appear before the board of equalization at their
next regular meeting, to be held within ten days of
adjournment of first meeting, and upon evidence salts
factory to the board of equalization that the assessment
or any part thereof is unjust or more than the actual
cash value of such property SO assessed, the said board
shall reduce such assessment in accordance with the facts
established by the evidence introduced, or such claims
may be presented at the next annual meeting of the
board of equalization, when said board may abate such
tax in proportion to such unjust, erroneous assessment:
ProUded, 1t is evident to such board that no part of such
claimants taxable property has been omitted or under
valued in the original ssessment, or by the board of
or claims are made. Said officers, together with the
assessor, while sitting as such board of equalization, shall
receive three 1888 dollars per day, not exceeding three
days. pssF
corrected and completed, the trustees shall levy a tax upon
the taxable property situate within the corporate limits of
said town not exceeding five () mills on the dollar in any
one year, and shall set opposite the name OF each person