SEC. 17. An attorney who receives the money or property of Misdemeanor his client in the course of his professional business, and refuses to pay or deliver it immediately after demand, is guilty of a misde meanor. SEC. 18. When the attorney claims to be entitled to a lien upon Fees. the money or property, he is not liable to the penalties of the preceding section for the amount of money or property justly held as fees. SEC. 19. This act shall take effect and be in force from and In force. after its passage. Approved, December 9, 1869. NOTE.-Section 2 was amended by the insertion of the words, "of one of the judges or," as above, by act of December 4, 1875.-COMPILERS.] CHAPTER 7. Laramie co. court house, Plans and specifications. Proposals for building. Award of contract. Bond of contractor. County bonds authorized. BONDS. AN ACT Authorizing the Building of a Court House and Jail in Laramie County, and Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of Wyoming SECTION 1. The board of county commissioners of Laramie county are hereby authorized to locate and purchase a site, or receive the same by donation or otherwise, within the limits of the incorporated city of Cheyenne, in the name of the county of Laramie, for a court house, and to erect thereon a suitable court house and jail. SEC. 2. Plans and specifications of such court house and jail shall be prepared by and under the direction of the board of county commissioners, before the first day of April, 1872, which shall be subject to the inspection of all persons desiring to examine the same, during business hours, at the office of the county clerk of said county. SEC. 3. The county commissioners of said county shall adver tise for proposals for building said court house and jail, according to the plans and specifications adopted by the board of commissioners, and furnishing the material for the same, for at least twenty days, in some newspaper published in said county, and also by posting up three or more written notices of said advertisement in at least three public places in said county. SEC. 4. On the first Monday of May, 1872, the board of county commissioners shall open the proposals received, in public, and shall award the contract for building said court house and jail and furnishing the material therefor in accordance with the plan and specifications adopted, to the lowest responsible bidder. SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners to exact from the person to whom the contract for building said court house and jail shall be awarded, a good and sufficient bond in double the amount of proposal of the person to whom the award is made, with two or more sufficient sureties having the qualifications of sureties now required by law; conditioned for the faithful performance of his contract within the time specified and fixed by said board of commissioners. SEC. 6. For the purpose of providing the necessary means to purchase a site for said court house and jail building, and furnishing the same, the board of county commissioners of said county are hereby authorized to issue bonds of the county of Laramie, Wyoming Territory, to an amount not to exceed thirty-five thousand dollars. SEC. 7. Said bonds shall be issued in sums of one hundred dollars each; shall be made payable in ten years from the date of their issue, or sooner, as hereinafter provided; shall bear interest at the rate of ten per cent. per annum; shall be regularly numbered from one upwards, and before being issued shall be registered in the county treasurer's office and countersigned by the treasurer. SEC. 8. The county treasurer of said county shall keep a book Registry of in which shall be registered all of said bonds, showing the number bonds. of the bond, the date of issue, to whom issued, amount, date of redemption, and payment of interest, which book shall be open to the inspection of any and all persons desiring to see the same, during business hours. SEC. 9. Said bonds shall have coupons attached, representing the interest to be paid, and the coupon representing the interest shall be detached from the bond by the county treasurer upon the payment of the interest for the year corresponding, and shall be forthwith canceled by writing the word "canceled" across the face thereof. SEC. 10. There shall be annually levied by the board of county Annual bond commissioners of said county, on all the taxable property therein, tax. an assessment not to exceed five mills on the dollar of valuation. which tax shall be known as the "county bond tax," and said tax shall be collected in the same manner as other county taxes, and paid into the county treasury by the collector of taxes. SEC. 11. The "county bond tax" of Laramie county shall be How payable. payable only in gold or silver coin, or in United States treasury notes or national bank notes, and shall be used to pay interest and principal of the county bonds, and for no other purpose. SEC. 12. The board of county commissioners shall each year, Retirement of after the second, retire at least one-tenth of the bonds, beginning bonds. with number one and proceeding consecutively upwards, by paying the interest and principal due, and canceling the same; and whenever there is a surplus of one thousand dollars and over, in the "general fund" of the county, the board of county commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered to divert and transfer the same to the "county bond tax," and apply the same to the redemption of the bonds authorized to be issued by this act, or to purchase bonds in open market with the same. ment. SEC. 13. The interest and principal of said bonds shall be pay- Place of payable at the county treasurer's office in said county, on the first and ten succeeding days of January in each year (Sundays excepted): and if after the payment of interest on said bonds, any surplus remains in the county bond fund, it shall be forthwith applied to the redemption of the bonds in the order and manner hereinbefore specified. And it shall be the duty of the county treasurer, under the direction of the board of county commissioners, to notify the Notice to holders of the bonds to be redeemed, by advertisement in some newspaper published in said county, for ten consecutive days (Sundays excepted), or by personal notice, that the bonds (numbering them, giving amount and to whom issued) will be paid on holders, cease, when. presentation to the county treasurer. If said bonds are not pre sented within thirty days from such personal notice, or the comInterest to pletion of the advertisement, they shall fail to draw interest thereafter; and the surplus fund may be used to retire other bonds than those advertised or noticed, and immediately in the order succeeding; and the bonds advertised and noticed for payment need not be paid until the next year. Taxable property pledged interest on same. SEC. 14. All the taxable property of said Laramie county, is for payment hereby pledged to the payment of the principal and interest of of bonds, and said bonds in the manner herein prescribed, and it shall not be lawful to use or divert any portion of the "county bond tax" for any purpose whatever, except the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds, in the manner herein prescribed, until the whole of said bonds are redeemed. manner of. SEC. 15. The bonds and coupons herein authorized shall be prepared by, and under the direction of the board of county commissioners, and the said board of county commissioners shall have Sale of bonds, authority, and they are hereby authorized to negotiate a sale of said bonds for cash, on the most advantageous terms they can for the county, but not at a greater rate of discount than fifteen per cent. of the par value of the same, and the money received by the sale of said bonds shall be only used in payment for the site for a court house, the building of a court house and jail, furnishing said building with the necessary furniture, and improving the grounds. The county treasurer shall have the custody of the funds realized from the sale of said bonds, until the same is drawn out by the order of the county commissioners, and he shall be entitled to one per cent. for the safe keeping and accounting for the same. It shall be the duty of the county commissioners to Treasurer to exact of the county treasurer à separate bond in such sum as they may deem proper on behalf of the county of Laramie, for a faithful accounting for the money deposited with him and realized from the sale of the bonds as herein provided for. Disposition of funds. give separate bond. Expense of preparing how paid. SEC. 16. All the expenses of preparing plans and specifications, Plans, etc. advertising proposals, engraving of bonds and coupons, negotiating sale of bonds and treasurer's per centage, snall be paid out of the county general fund on the order of the board of county commissioners. Act relating to SEC. 17. Nothing in this act relating to county revenue or in any county reve other act of the Legislative Assembly of Wyoming, shall be so construed as to interfere with or in any way impede the provisions of nue no impediment. tion. this act. SEC. 18. Before the provisions of this act shall be carried into effect or any expense incurred under this act, the board of county Special elec- commissioners of Laramie county shall call a special election at all the precincts in said county, for the purpose of ascertaining the will of the qualified electors of said county upon the question of building said jail and court house, which said special election shall in all respects be conducted, and the result thereof canvassed and certified as nearly as practicable, in the same manner as is now provided by law in the case of special elections, for the purpose of filling vacancies in offices in this Territory. SEC. 19. All qualified voters of said county of Laramie, and none others, shall be entitled to vote at the said special election herein provided for, and all those in favor of building a county jail and court house in the manner provided in this act, shall deposit a written or printed ballot with the judges of election, Manner of with the words thereon, "for a jail and court house," and those voting. opposed to the building of a county jail and court house, in the manner provided in this act, shall deposit a written or printed ballot with the judges of election, with the words thereon, "against a jail and court house.” SEC. 20. When all the votes in the several precincts in the said county of Laramie, upon the foregoing proposition are returned and canvassed in the manner provided, if it shall be found that a majority of the votes cast are "for a jail and court house," then it shall be the duty of the county commissioners of said Laramie county to carry into effect the provisions of this act, but if a Commissionmajority of the votes cast are "against a jail and court house," to effect, in then no proceedings shall be taken and no expenses incurred under what case. this act. "ers to carry in SEC. 21. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved 16th December, 1871. |