, 1899-03-13
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House Bill No. 143.
REVISION.

An Act to adopt and establish the Revised Statutes of Wyoming of
the year 1893. and providing for the editing of the same. and re-
pealing all laws in conflict Herewith.
BE it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1. That all Statutes of the State of Wyoming
of permanent character, in force and effect, on and after the
first day of December, 1899, shall be edited. compiled and
revised in a manner suitable for publication in a single vol
ume, TO be known as the Revised Statutes of Wyoming,
1899, the same to be so constituted and to be in full force
and effect on and after the first day of December, A. d. 1899.
See. =. That said publication shall contain in addition
to said Statutes, a copy of Magma Charta, the Declaration
of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Consti-
tuition OF the United States, the Act of Congress organizing
the Territory of Wyoming, the Act of Congress admitting
the State of Wyoming into the Union, and the Constitution
of the State of Wyoming, the latter to be thoroughly in
dexed.
Sec. 3. That in the work of editing and revising said
Statutes, the Revision Commission shall change the word
TERRITORY" to the word state wherever the same appears
in the said laws as referring to this Commonwealth. They
may also make any mere verbal changes in the text of said
Statutes and laws that may be necessary to secure correct
expression, but which shall not alter or change the effect or
operation of any provision of law, but no provision of law
shall be inserted in said Revised Statutes which shall not
have been previously in full force by virtue of legislative en-
actment and unrepealed; it being the purpose and intention
of this Act to secure a complete compilation and revision
of all existing laws, and no more and no less.
Sec. A. The Attorney General of the State and the Sec
rotary OF state OF wyoming, are hereby constituted a Revis.
ion Commission, to serve as such without additional com
pensation, and it shall be their duty to use the manuscript
and copy of the Revised Statutes of Wyoming heretofore
prepared by the Commission appointed pursuant to the
laws of 1895 and brought forward to the present year, as the
same has been recently edited and revised by the said At
torney General and others, and which is now in the custody
of said Secretary of State. The said Attorney General and
Secretary of State as such Commission, shall incorporate
into the said revision, all the permanent laws enacted by
the Fifth Legislature of this State, under proper division,
titled and headings, and in their whole work, they shall
bring together all Statutes and parts of Statutes which,
through similarity of subjects, ought to be brought together,
emitting all those parts of the division, titles, chapters and
articles aforesaid which are repealed by or are in conflict
with any law or laws enacted by the Fifth Legislature,
They shall also bring into said work any statute or parts
of statutes remaining unrepealed, which from inadvertence,
may have been omitted from the recent revision of the said
Attorney General and others, and shall omit therefrom
any and every provision which was not previously in force
as a legislative enactment of this State and unrepealed
which, from inadvertence, may remain incorporated in said
recent revision.
Sec. 5. That said Revised Statutes shall be published
in one volume and substantially bound in law sheep, with
flexible backs of which there shall be printed 1000 copies.
The size of type, quality of paper and size (Of) pages shall
1887. The Secretary of State shall advertise for four con-
secutive weeks in two daily papers of the State, one of
which shall be at the seat Of government, two insertions
each week, inviting sealed proposals for printing, binding
and delivering said Revised Statutes and the bid for and the
letting of the contract for the same shall be in accordance
with and governed by the provisions of Sections five, six
and seven of Chapter 4S of the Session Laws of 1S9O91, and
the said Revision Committee shall superintend the prepare.
ton, editing, prOOfreading and publication of said Revised
Statutes of Wyoming, 1899, said Revised Statutes certified
and published as herein provided, shall on and after the
said first day of December, A. d. 1899, constitute and be
the permanent Statutes of Wyoming to be known as the Re-
vised Statutes of Wyoming, 1899, as aforesaid, and shall
have full force and effect as such. All Statutes in force
when the Revised Statutes of the year 1899 take effect, and
which are not included therein or which are not therein ex-
pressly continued in force, shall be and are hereby repealed;
Provided, that said repeal shall take effect and be in force
from and after said first day of December, A. ID. 1899. Pro.
vided, further, however, that such repeal shall not effect
any act done or any act accruing or accrued or any suit or
proceeding or prosecution had or commenced in any cause,
civil or criminal, before said repeal, but any rights and liza.
bilities under said Statutes shall continue and be enforced
in the same manner as il the said repeal had not been made,
and all onenses committed and all penalties and forfeiture
sfncus1ed under any Statutes hereby repealed may be prose
49, ~ puniahed In the same manner and with the same
1853 asM nd repeal had not been made.