CHAPTER 59. Prisoners County, to Labor. County prison to AN ACT to Provide for the Labor of Prisoners Confined in the County Jails. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming: any SECTION 1. That any persons confined in any county ers compelled jail in this Territory may be compelled to work, in way that the county commissioners may direct, for the benefit of the county. Duties of sher 1 iff. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the sheriff of each and every county, under the direction of the chairman of the board of county commissioners, and he may do so of his own will when he deems it necessary, by himself or deputy, to employ each and every prisoner under his charge and under sentence, who is able to work, to do such work as the chairman of the board shall direct, and to keep such prisoner at such work during the working hours of every week day unless said sheriff and his deputy shall be necessarily engaged in other employment in the service of the county, in which case, if there are more than three prisoners to be employed, it shall be lawful for such chairman to employ a competent guard to superinemployed, tend and watch such prisoners, at a charge not exceeding two dollars per day, to be paid out of the county treasury upon a warrant duly drawn by order of the board of county commissioners. But nothing in this act contained shall be construed as allowing any extra compensation allowed sheirff. fee or reward to such sheriff or his deputy for such services as are required of him by this act Approved December 9, 1879. Guard may be when. No extra fee CHAPTER 60. Process Service Of. AN ACT to Provide for the Service of Writs, Orders, Process of Every Kind, and all Notices where the Distance is over Fifty Miles. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming : distance is SECTION 1. That in all cases where any writ, order, service of proprocess of any kind, or notice, which is required by law cess where the to be served by any ministerial officer of this Territory, over fifty miles. and the distance to be traveled to make such service is over fifty miles, such officer shall appoint some suitable person, not a party in interest, upon the request of the party requesting such service, and the authority of such person so appointed shall be endorsed on such writ, order, process or notice, by such officer, and directed to the person so appointed, by mail, at the risk of the party making such request. And when such writ, order, process or notice, is served by a person so appointed, to whom it is directed, or when the service is made out of this Territory, the return shall be verified by an oath or affidavit. Provided, That no mileage shall be allowed for the distance intervening between the point where the writ, order, process or other notice was issued and the postoffice where the same is sent to the person so authorized to serae said writ. SEC. 2. That all acts and parts of acts conflicting with this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after passage. Approved December 10, 1879. ferred and method of ex CHAPTER 61. Railroad Corporations-Act Regulating. AN ACT Authorizing Railroad Companies to Mortgage their Property, Issue Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of SECTION 1. Every railroad company organized under Powers on the general incorporation act of this Territory, shall have ercising them. power, and is hereby authorized to mortgage or execute deeds of trust, in whole or in part, of the real and personal property and franchises, including its lands or other property granted to said company by the United States, or any state or territory, to secure money borrowed by them for the construction and equipment of their roads, and may also issue their corporate bonds in sums not less than one thousand dollars; to make all of said mortgages or deeds of trust payable to bearer or otherwise, negotiable by delivery, bearing interest at rates not to exceed ten per cent. per annum, convertible into stock, or not, at the option of the holder, and may sell the same at such rates and prices as they may deem proper, and if said bonds shall be sold below their nominal or par value, they shall be valid and and binding upon the company, and no plea of usury shall be put in or allowed by said company in any suit or proceeding upon the same. The principal and interest of said bonds or either of them may be made payable within or without this Territory, at such place as may be determined upon by said company. May consolidate. SEC. 2. Whenever a line of railroad of any railroad company in this Territory, or any portion of said line, has been constructed so as to connect with any two or more of such roads, said companies are hereby author dation may be ized to consolidate themselves into a single corporation in the manner following: The trustees of the said two or more corporations may enter into an agreement under the corporate seal of each, for the consolidation of said Manner in two or more corporations, prescribing the terms or con- which consoli ditions thereof; the mode of carrying the same into made. effect; the name of the new corporation; the number of the trustees thereof, which shall not be less than seven; the time and place of holding the first election of trustees; the number of shares of capital stock in the new corporation; the amount of each share; the manner of converting the shares of capital stock in each of said two or more corporations, into shares in such new corporation; the manner of compensating stockholders in each of said two or more corporations who refuse to convert their stock into the stock of such new corporation, with such other details as they shall deem necessary to perfect such consolidation of said corporations; and such new corporations shall possess all the powers, rights and franchises conferred upon such said two or more corporations, and shall be subject to all the restrictions, and perform all the duties imposed by the provisions of this subdivion; Provided, That all stockholders in either of such corporations who shall refuse to convert their stock into the stock of such new corporation, shall be paid an appraised value of said stock at the date of such consolidation. tion. SEC. 3. Upon making the agreement mentioned in the preceeding section, in the manner required therein, How corporaand filing a duplicate or counterpart thereof in the office tions may be merged with a of the secretary of the Territory, the said two or more new corporacorporations (mentioned or referred to in the last two or more preceding sections, or any other law of the Territory) shall be merged in the new corporation provided for in such agreement, to be known by the corporate name therein mentioned; and the details of such agreement shall be carried into effect as provided therein. SEC. 4. Upon the election of the first board of trustees of the corporation created by the agreement in the preceding section mentioned, and by the provisions of this subdivision, all and singular the rights and franchises of each and all of said two or more corporations, parties to such agreement, and all and singular the rights and interest in and to every species of property, real, personal and mixed, and things in action shall be deemed to tors. be transferred to and vested in such new corporation, without any other deed or transfer, and such new corporation shall hold and enjoy the same, together with right of way and all other rights of property in the same manner and to the same extent as if the said two or more corporations, parties to such agreement, should have continued to retain the title and transact the business of such corporations. And the title and the real estate acquired by either of said two or more corporations Rights of cred- shall not be deemed to revert or be impaired by means of anything in this subdivision contained; Provtded, That all rights of creditors and all liens upon the property of either of said corporations shall be and hereby are preserved unimpaired; and the respective corporations shall continue to exist as far as may be necessary to enforce the same. Provided further, That all debts, liabilities and duties of either company shall henceforth attach to such new corporation, and be enforced to the same extent and in the same manner as if such debts, liabilities and duties had been originally incurred by it. Railroad com- SEC. 5. Any railroad incorporated under the general panies may laws of this Territory may at any time by means of the capital of subscription to the capital stock of any other company companies. or otherwise, aid such company in the construction of its road for the purpose of forming a connection with the line of road owned by such other company; Subscribe other railroad SEC. 6. Any railroad company existing in pursuance Any railroad of law, may lease or purchase any part or all of any other may purchase railroad constructed by any other company, upon such other railroad. terms and conditions, as may be agreed upon between or lease any said companies respectively, aud any two or more railroad companies whose lines are so connected may perfect any arrangement for their common benefit to assist and promote to [the] object for which they were created. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved December 13, 1879. |