CHAPTER 73. LARAMIE CITY. AN ACT to Incorporate Laramie City. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming : amie City. SECTION 1. That all that portion of the Territory of Wyoming Limits of Larsituate on the Big Laramie river, in the county of Albany, near where the Union Pacific railroad crosses the same, laid out and platted as a town site by the Union Pacific Railroad Company, under and by the name of Laramie, together with all the additions that may hereafter be made thereto according to law, is hereby declared to be a corporation by the name of Laramie City. tees, when SEC. 2. There shall be elected, on the 13th day of January, A. Board of trus D. 1876, by the qualified voters of said town, a board of trustees elected. consisting of three members, the one receiving the largest number of votes to be elected for two (2) years, one treasurer, and one Treasurer and assessor, who shall respectfully hold their offices until their suc- assessor. cessors are elected and qualified, and hereafter, on the 13th day of March, of each succeeding year, there shall be elected by the quali- subsequent fied voters of said town, two trustees, the one receiving the largest number of votes to be elected for two years, one treasurer and one assessor, who shall respectfully hold their offices until their successors are elected and qualified; Provided, That if at any time the 13th Proviso. day of March shall be on Sunday, such election shall be held on the next day thereafter. Said trustees shall respectively discharge Pay of trus all the duties of their offices for the sum of sixty dollars num. per an elections. tees. ers, for elect'n tees, treasur or. SEC. 3. There shall be a meeting of the qualified voters of said Meeting of town, or such number of said voters as desire to attend such qualified vot meeting, at the court house in said town, or at the city hall of of three trussaid town, at 9 o'clock a. m., on the 13th day of January, A. D. 1876, er, and assesfor the purpose of electing a board of trustees, consisting of three members, one treasurer and one assessor, for said town of Laramie City; and for each succeeding year thereafter,said meeting of the qualified voters shall be held on the 13th day of March, for the Date of subpurpose of electing two trustees, one treasurer and one assessor, tons. as provided in section one of this act, and no person shall be eligible Eligibility. for the office of trustee, unless he has been an actual resident of said town two years next preceding this election. sequent elec voters. Meeting of SEC. 4. At the meeting of the qualified voters, as herein provided, polls shall be opened at nine o'clock in the forenoon of said day, and shall be kept open until four o'clock in the afternoon, when they shall be closed. Inspectors. Trustees. statement,etc. SEC. 5. The voters at such meeting shall first proceed to the selection of three inspectors, who, after being duly selected and qualified, and having elected one of their number clerk, shall without delay proclaim to the meeting that the poll is now opened, and that they are ready to receive the ballots of the voters. SEC. 6. The persons having the greatest number of votes shall be declared elected as such trustees; and if two or more have an equal and highest number of votes, the inspectors of such elections shall forthwith determine by lot which shall be deemed elected; and it Inspectors shall be the further duty of such inspectors to make a certified shall make a statement over their own signatures, of the persons elected as such board of trustees, and file the same with the register of deeds of Albany county, within six days of the day of such election; and no act or ordinance of any board of trustees chosen at such election shall be valid until the provisions of this section are substantially complied with; and it shall be the duty of the register of deeds of Albany county to make a record of such certified state Notice of election. Vacancy, how filled. Election of president, ment. SEC. 7. At all elections for trustees, the provisions of the sixth section of this act shall be substantially complied with. SEC. 8. There shall be at least ten days' notice of all elections, except the first one, held under the provisions of this act, given by the clerk of said town, pursuant to the order of such board of trustees, in a newspaper, if any be printed in said town, otherwise by posting up such notices in five public places therein. SEC. 9. A vacancy occurring in the board of trustees shall be filled by especial election, as provided in section twelve (12) of · said act, by the remaining members of such board of trustees, at a special meeting of the trustees called for that purpose. SEC. 10. The board of trustees, chosen as aforesaid, shall elect oath of office, a president from their own body; and such president, trustees, and all other officers elected or appointed, shall, within five days after such election or appointment, take and subscribe, before some person authorized to administer the same, the usual oath or affirmation for the faithful performance of the duties of their respective offices. Corporate powers. Special meetings of voters, how called. SEC. 11. The president and trustees of said town of Laramie City, and their successors in office, shall constitute a body: politie and corporate, by the name of the town of Laramie City, and shall be capable in law and equity to prosecute and defend suits to which they are a party. SEC. 12. Special meetings of the qualified voters of said town may be called by the clerk, by order of the trustees of said town, by giving five days' notice thereof in a newspaper, if any be printed in said town; otherwise by posting up such notices in five public places therein; and such notice shall state the object for which such meeting is called. of voters SEC. 13. No person shall be deemed a qualified voter, and qualifications entitled to vote at any election held under the provisions of this act, who has not been a bona fide resident of said town at least two months immediately preceding the election at which he offers to vote. opened SEC. 14. At all elections in said town, the polls shall be opened Polls, when at nine o'clock in the forenoon, and shall not be finally closed until and sun-set of said day. SEC. 15. The inspectors of the elections, held under the pro- Inspectors, visions of this act, in the receiving and canvassing of votes, shall how govern'd. be governed by the laws then existing, so far as they are applicable, for the election of members of the General Assembly. election, how SEC. 16. At all elections held under the provisions of this act, Inspectors of after the first election, the president and two electors selected from chosen." the bystanders by the legal voters of said town, shall act as inspectors of such elections. ings SEC. 17. Such board of trustees shall hold a regular annual Annual meetmeeting in each and every year, on the first Tuesday in April, and is of board appoint the following officers: One clerk, one marshal and one when held. night policeman, who shall hold their offices for one year, unless Appointm'nts sooner removed by said board of trustees. Said clerk shall receive Clerk's salry. for his services as salary, a sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars per annum; said marshal shall receive for his salary, Marshal's saa sum not exceeding one, hundred dollars per month; said night lary policeman shall receive for his salary, a sum not exceeding sev- man's salary. enty-five dollars per month. Night-police SEC. 18. The board of trustees shall have the following powers, Powers of viz: First, To have a common seal, and alter the same; Second, To purchase, hold or convey any estate, real or personal, for the use of said town, so far as may be necessary to carry out the objects contemplated by this act; trustees. Third, To organize fire companies, hook and ladder compa- Concerning nies; to regulate their government, and the times and manner of fires. their exercise; to provide all necessary apparatus for the extinguishment of fires; to make owners of buildings provide ladders and fire buckets, which are hereby declared to be appurtenances to the real estate, and exempt from execution, seizure or sale; to regulate the storage of gunpowder and other dangerous material; to direct the construction of a place for the safe deposit of ashes; and may, under an order by them entered upon the proper book of the board, visit, or appoint one or more fire wardens to visit. and examine, at all reasonable hours, dwelling houses, lots, yards, enclosures and buildings of every description, discover if any of them are in a dangerous condition, and provide proper remedies for such danger; to regulate the manner of putting up stoves and stove pipes; to prevent out-fires, and the use of fireworks, and the discharge of fire-arms within the limits of said town, or such parts thereof as they may think proper; to compel the inhabitants of such town to aid in the extinguishment of fire, and prevent its communication to other buildings, under such penalties as are in this act prescribed; to construct and preserve reservoirs, wells, Concerning nuisances. Gambling,etc. License. Streets, ete. Sidewalks. Public property. Cemeteries. Trees. Property tax. By-laws, ordinances, etc. Fines and penalties. They may enact fines, etc. Moneys, how appropriated. pumps and other waterworks, and to regulate the use thereof, and generally to establish other measures of prudence for the prevention or extinguishment of fires, as they shall deem proper: Fourth, To declare what shall constitute a nuisance, and to prevent, abate and remove the same, and take such measures for the preservation of the public health as they shall deem necessary; Fifth, To restrain from running at large, cattle, sheep, swine or other animals; Sirth, To restrain and prohibit gambling and other disorderly conduct; to suppress and prohibit the keeping of houses of ill fame; to authorize the seizure and destruction of gambling apparatus, and to license the sale of spirituous and intoxicating liquors, and such license shall clearly state upon its face the conditions of such license; said license shall not exceed the sum of eighty do!lars per annum; Seventh, To license, regulate or prevent auction establishments, traveling peddlers and public exhibitions within the corporation ; Ninth, To lay out, open, grade and otherwise improve the streets, alleys, sewers, sidewalks and crossings, and to keep them in repair, and vacate the same; Eleventh, To prohibit the incumbrance of the sidewalks of said town, and riding or driving thereon, except across the same; Twelfth, To insure the public property of such town; Thirteenth, To purchase, lay out, and regulate cemeteries; Fourteenth, To plant trees upon public grounds, and along the streets of such town, and provide for their culture and preservation, and to enclose any public square or other public grounds within said town; Fifteenth, To levy and collect an annual property tax, not exceeding three (3) mills on the dollar in any one year: Sixteenth, To make and establish such by-laws, ordinances and regulations not repugnant to the laws or organic act of this Territory, or may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act, and to repeal, alter or amend the same as they shall seem to require; but every by-law, ordinance or regulation, unless in case of emergency, shall be published in a newspaper in such town, if one be printed therein, or posted in five public places, at least ten days before the same shall take effect. SEC. 19. Such board of trustees shall have power to enact fines and penalties for violations of this act, or of any by-law or ordinance by them established, not exceeding fifty dollars for any one offense, which may be recovered in an action in the name of the corporation; but such board may remit the whole, or any part of the fine, or penalty; Provided, That the fine assessed for the violation of any ordinance requiring a license, shall not be less than the amount required to be paid for such license. SEC. 20. All moneys, however derived, belonging to such corporation, shall only be appropriated for such objects and defraying such expenses as accrue, or necessarily arise, in the exercise of powers granted by this act. No appropriation shall be made without an order to that effect, entered upon a proper book to be kept for that purpose, by such board of trustees; Provided, That no appro priation shall be made, unless there be money, not otherwise appropriated in the treasury, at the time of making such appropriation. allowed. SEC. 21. No account or claim against said town shall be Claims, how audited or allowed by the board of trustees, unless it be made out fully and itemized, and properly subscribed and sworn to, and every such account audited shall be numbered from one upwards, in the order they were presented, and a memorandum of the same entered upon a book to be kept exclusively for that purpose. on the treasurer. SEC. 22. No account or claim shall be paid unless properly Moneys dr'wn 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 from the treasurer, signed by the president of the board of trustees, and attested by the clerk. SEC. 23. The town incorporated by this act shall not have May borrow power to borrow money or incur any debt or liability, unless the money. citizen owners of five-eighths of the taxable property of suchtown, as evidenced by the assessment-roll of the preceeding year, petition the board of trustees to contract such debt or loan; and 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, successively, 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; Provided, That in no case Proviso. shall the levy exceed two mills on the dollar in any one year. ficers to give SEC. 24. The clerk, assessor, treasurer and marshal shall, within Appointed of ten days from their election or appointment, each and severally bonds. 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 and marshal shall respectively be not less than double the amount of the estimated tax duplicate for the current year. be delivered SEC. 25. All books, vouchers, money or other property belong- Books, etc. to ing to the corporation, and in the charge or possession of any up. officer of the same, shall be delivered to his successor when qualified. SEC. 26. The board of trustees shall, before the third Tuesday Tax. of April of each year, after the town shall have been incorporated, determine the amount of general tax for the current year. of property. SEC. 27. The assessor shall assess all property liable to taxation, Assessment within the corporate limits of said town, at its true cash value, and shall make return of his assessment roll to such board of trustees, on or before the third Tuesday in May of each year, and When made. shall receive for his services, as such assessor, six (6) dollars per Wages of asday for time actually employed making said assessment. sessor. SEC. 28. The trustees shall cause the clerk of said corporation Notices. to put up notices in three or more public places in said town, stating that the assessment roll is returned and opened for inspection, and upon a day, and at a place to be specified in said notice. The trustees, or a majority of them, together with the assessor, Board of while sitting as such board of equalization, shall receive three (3) pay of equalizati on, |