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SEC. 2. No money shall be expended under the provisions of this act except by direction of at least two of the judges of the supreme court.

SEC. 3. All acts and parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval.

Approved December 13, 1879.

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CHAPTER 77.

Swine Forbidden to Run at Large.

AN ACT to Amend an Act Concerning the keeeping of Swine.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming :

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SECTION 1. That an act entitled "An act concerning the keeping of swine within the Territory of Wyoming," act of Dec. 15, approved December 15, 1877, be amended as follows: 1877. Strike out all after section three (3) and insert in the place thereof: And it shall be the duty of every sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, marshal or policeman, in said Territory, upon ascertaining by his own knowledge or by notice, verbally or otherwise given, that any swine is or are so running at large, to immediately give said written notice to the owner or owners of said swine or to the agent or manager of the business of said owner or run at large. owners and if the owner or owners of said swine are to said officer unknown, said officer may impound said swine until claimed by the owner thereof and may charge a fee of twenty-five cents per day for the keeping of each and every swine, and ten cents each for impounding, but May be imsuch impounding shall not exonerate from the said pounded. penalty.

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SEC. 2. If said hog or hogs are not claimed within. ten days, the impounding officer shall post at least three when. notices, in conspicious places within the settlement where they are impounded, that said hog or hogs will be sold to the higest bidder at public vendue, and they shall be sold at such time, and the proceeds of the sale, after deducting lawful expenses, shall be paid into the public school fund.

Approved December 9, 1877.

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CHAPTER 78.

Territorial Librarian-Compensation Of..

AN ACT to Fix the Compensation of the Territorial Librarian.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming:

SECTION 1. That the compensation of the territorial librarian and ex officio superintendent of public instruction shall hereafter be a salary of eight hundred dollars per annum, payable quarterly, which salary shall be in full for all services which he may perform in said offices.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the territorial librarian library. to insure in some first class insurance company and on the best terms for the Territory, at the earliest opportunity, the territorial law library for a sum not less than six thousand dollars, the policy to run to the Territory of Wyoming.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved December 13, 1879.

CHAPTER 79.

Territorial Library-Publication of Catalogue.

AN ACT to Provide for the Publication of a Catalogue of the Books in the Territorial Library.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming:

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SECTION 1. That the territorial librarian is hereby Three hundred authorized and empowered to have three hundred copies fished. of a catalogue of the books in the territorial library published for the purpose of distribution among the state, territorial and other libraries, as he may deem advisable.

SEC. 2. That the sum of one hundred dollars is hereby Appropriation appropriated out of the territorial treasury, out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of defraying the cost of the publication of said catalogue as provided in section one of this act.

SEC. 3. This act shall be in force from and after its passage.

Approved December 13, 1879.

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CHAPTER 80.

Territorial Penitentiary.

AN ACT Declaring the Stafe Penitentiary of the State of Nebraska a Territoria
Penitentiary of the Territory of Wyoming.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of
the Territory of Wyoming:

SECTION 1. That the state penitentiary of the state of tiary of Ne- Nebraska, located at Lincoln, in the state of Nebraska, is hereby declared to be a Territorial penitentiary of the Territory of Wyoming, for the confinement of all convicts of said Territory of Wyoming, who have heretofore been sentenced, or may hereafter be sentenced, by any of the courts of said Territory of Wyoming to confinement therein.

Approved December 13, 1879.

Commission to consist of three citizens.

CHAPTER 81.

Territorial Prisoners.

AN ACT Providing for the Keeping of Territorial Prisoners and for Other Purposes Connected Therewith.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming:

SECTION 1. That there shall be a board of penitentiary commissioners to consist of three citizens of the Territory, to be nominated by the governor and confirmed by the Territorial council, and who shall hold their office for two years and until their successors are duly appointed and qualified.

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