, 1889-10-02
ARTICLE NO. MI.
COUNTY ORGANIZATION.

COUNTY ORGANIZATION.
SECTION l. The several counties in the Territory of
Wyoming as they shall exist at the time of the admission of
said territory as a State are hereby declared to be the coun-
ties of the State of Wyoming.
SEC. 2. The Legislature shall provide by general law for
organizing new counties, locating the county seats thereof
temporarily and changing county lines. But no new county
shall be formed unless it shall contain within the limits there
of property of the valuation of two million dollars, as shown
by last preceding tax returns, and not then unless the re-
naming portion of the old county or counties shall each
contain property of at least three million of dollars of assess
able valuation; and no new county shall be organized, nor
shall any organized county be SO reduced as to contain a
population of less than one thousand five hundred bona fde
inhabitants, and in case any portion of an organized county
or counties is stricken off to form a new county the new
county shall assume and be holden for an equitable proper
ton of the indebtedness of the county or counties so re-
duced. No county shall be divided unless a majority of the
qualified electors of the territory proposed to be cut off vot-
ing ON the proposition shall vote in favor of the division.
SEC. 8. The legislature shall provide by general law
for changing county seats in organized counties, but it shall
have no power to remove the county seat of any organized
county.
SEC. 4. The Legislature shall provide by general law
for a system of township organization and government,
which may be adopted by any county whenever a majority
of the citizens thereof voting at a general election shall SO
SEC. 5. The legislature shall provide by law for the
election of such county officers as may be necessary.
RAILROADS.
SECTION l. Any railroad corporation or association or
ganized for the purpose, shall have the right to construct
and operate a railroad between any points within this State
and to connect at the State line with railroads of other
states. Every railroad shall have the right with its road to
intersect, connect with or cross any other railroad, and all
railroads shall receive and transporteach others passengers,
tonnage and cars, loaded or empty, without delay or dis
elimination.
structed or that may hereafter be constructed in this State
are hereby declared public highways and common carriers,
and as such must be made by law to extend the same equal
ity and impartality to all who use them, excepting employees
and their families and ministers of the gospel, whether in
dividuals or corporations.
SEC. 3. Every railroad corporation or association oper-
ating a line of railroad within this State shall annually make
a report to the auditor of the State of its business within
this state, in such form as the legislature may prescribe.
SEC. 4. Exercise of the power and right of eminent do
main shall never be SO construed or abridged as to prevent
the taking by the Legislature of property and franchises
of incorporated companies and subiecting them to public
use the same as property of individuals.
SEC. 5. Neither the State, nor any county, township,
school district or municipality shall loan or give its credit
or make donations to or in aid of any railroad or tele-
graph line; provided, that this section shall not apply to
obligations of any county, city, township or school district,
contracted prior to the adoption of this constitution.
SEC. 6. No railroad or other transportation company or
telegraph company in existence upon the adoption of this
constitution shall derive the benefit OF any future legisla-
ton without first filing in the Office of the secretary of
State an acceptance of the provisions of this constitution.
Sec. T. Any association, corporation or lessee of the
franchises thereof organized for the purpose shall have the
right to construct and maintain lines of telegraph within
this State and to connect the same with other lines.
SEC. 8. No foreign railroad or telegraph line shall do
any business within this State without having an agent or
agents within each county through which such railroad or
telegraph line shall be constructed upon whom process may
be served.
SEC. 9. No railroad company shall construct or operate
a railroad within four az miles of any existing town or city
without providing a suitable depot or stopping place at the
nearest practicable pointf for the convenience of said town or
city, and stopping all trains doing local business at said
stopping place. No railroad company shall deviate from
the most direct practicable line in constructing a railroad,
Tor the purpose of avoiding the provisions of this section.
ORDINANCES.
The following article shall be irrevocable without the
consent of the United States and the people of this State?
SECTION 1. The State of Wyoming is an inseparable
part of the Federal Union md the Constitution of the
United States is the supreme law of the land.
SEC. .. Perfect liberation of religious sentiment shall
be secured, and no %inhabitant of this State shall ever be
molested in person or property on account of his or her
mode of religious worship.
SEC. 8. The people ~inhabiting this State do agree and
declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the
unappropriated public lands lying within the boundaries
thereof, and to all lands lying within said limits owned or
held by any Indian or Indian tribes, and that until the title
the same shall be and remain subject to the disposition of
the United States and that said Indian lands shall remain
under the absolute Jurisdiction and control of the congress
of the United States; that the lands belonging to citizens of
the United States residing without this state shall never. be
taxed at a higher rate than the lands belonging to residents
of this state; that no taxes shall be imposed by this state on
lands a r Ironer1y fiur-;T,- I1lnncinm To NJ which hero