, 1899-03-20
70.
House Bill No. 1856.
FEES-STATE G.

An Act to amend and re-enact Section 4, of Chapter As, Session Laws
of 1895, approved February Is, 1895, and to amend and re-enact
Section 6, Chapter 60, Session Laws of 1895, approved February
16, 1895, and providing for the method of collecting the fees for
and issuing and recording certificates of appropriation of water.
BE il Enacted By the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section /. Section 4. of Chapter As. Session Laws of
1895, is hereby amended and re cnacted to read as follows:
Sec. 4. The State Engineer shall receive the following
fees which shall be collected in advance and be paid bv hin
into the General Fund of the State Treasury as by law pro-
|vided:
For filing and examining applications for permits to
appropriate water, and maps of same, two dollars.
above, one dollar for the first one hundred words and for
each additional folio fifteen cents.
For issuing certificates of appropriation of water, one
dollar. Provided, that said fee of one dollar shall be by
each appropriation or claimant paid to the Water Division
Superintendent at the time of the submission of testimony
and proof of appropriation of water by such appropriation,
or claimant, before the said Division superintendent, as by
law provided, which said fee shall be by said Superintendent
Immediately turned over to the said State Engineer and his
receipt taken therefor and filed in the records of the Board
of Control.
For making certified copies of any document recorded
or filed in the State Engineers Office, per folio fifteen cents,
and for each certificate attached thereto, one dollar
Sec. ,. Section 6, of Chapter 81, Session laws of 1895,
is hereby amended and reenacted as follows:
Sec. 6. That Section 26, of Chapter 8, of the Session
Laws of 1S90'91, be and the same is hereby amended and
reenactcd so as to read as follows:
Sec. 2G. AS soon as practicable after the determina-
ton of the priorities of appropriation of the use of waters
of any stream it shall be the duty of the Secretary to issue
to each person, association or corporation represented in
such determination, Il certificate to be signed by the State
Engineer, as President of the Board of Control, and attested
under seal by the Secretary of said Board, setting forth the
dmc III poslolIce lures Oh ne appfopflatOf; ne
priority number of such appropriations; the amount
of water appropriately; and if such appropriation be for
irrigation a description of the legal subdivisions of land to
which SAID water is to be applied. Such certificate shall be
transmitted by said State Engineer, or by a member of the
Board of Control, i'll person or by registered mail to the
County Clerk of the County in which such appropriation
shall have been made, and it shall be the duty of the County
Clerk upon the receipt of the recording fee, which fee shall be
seventy five cents, to record the same in a book especially
prepared and kept for that purpose, and thereupon immedi-
ately transmit the same to the respective appropriations.
Said recording fee of Scvcnty-ive cents shall be paid to the
Division Superintendent at the time of the submission of
testimony and proof of appropriation of water by each such
appropriation or claimant before the said Division Superin-
tcndent as provided by law, and shall be by him or the State
Engineer transmitted with each certificate of appropriation
to the County Clerk Of the County in which said certificate
is to be recorded and his receipt taken therefor. which said
receipt shall be filed in the State Engineers Office.
Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from
and after its passage.
Approved February DIST, A. d. 1899.