Committee 10 hereby constituted a joint committee to examine re ports, &c. to examine the reports of the Territorial auditor and treasurer. And said joint committee are hereby empowered to employ such assistance as they may deem necessary in prosecuting such duty to an early completion. And further, it shall be the duty of said committee to classify, as nearly as possible, under one head, all the appropriations now provided for by law, and to recommend to their respective houses such action as to them may seem advisable, to repeal coflicting inconsistent appropriation clauses in existing laws, and such other action as may be required to secure a perfect system in the respective offices of the auditor and treasurer. Aprroved December 2, 1879. CHAPTER 92. Assistant engrossing and Council Joint Resolution No. 6. AUTHORIZING that each House employ an Assitant Engrossing and Enrolling Clerk. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming: That in view of the press of business it is expedient enrolling clerk. that an assistant engrossing and enrolliug clerk be employed in each house, and that each house be empowered to employ such clerk at a salary not to exceed five dollars per day. (Signed) H. GARBANATI. President of the Council. H. L. MYRICK, Speaker of the House. Approved December 24, 1879. CHAPTER 93. Council Memorial and Joint Resolution No. 9. MEMORIAL and Joint Resolution of the Legislative Assembly of Wyoming to the To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives of system of or Your memorialists, the legislative Assembly of the change in the Territory of Wyoming, would most respectfully call the ganizing attention of congress to the present imperfect system of preme court. determining cases on appeal from the district court of the Territory. Our supreme courts are composed of the three district judges of the Territory, and in the event of an appeal, the judge from whose decision the appeal is taken, is permitted and required to sit as a member of the appellate court on the same case. Should the other two judges disagree, the decision rendered below will be affirmed, unless the judge from whom the appeal was taken should overrule his own decision, which seldom occurs, thus practically depriving the appellant from a fair and impartial hearing in the supreme court. Your memorialists would therefore most respectfully pray of your honorable body to provide for the organization of an appellate court upon some different basis, and would most respectfully suggest that our supreme court mighi be composed of United States circuit judges, having jurisdiction of all cases appealed from the district courts of all the Territories, to hold their sessions at some central locality to be designated by congress, or the chief justices of the various territories, or all the justices of the territories might compose the supreme court; or congress may devise some better method than any herein suggested, to obviate the difficulty herein mentioned, and as in duty bound your memorialists will ever pray. Resolved, by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming: That an authenticated copy of this memorial be for warded to the Hon. Stephen W. Downey, delegate ip congress from the Territory of Wyoming, who is hereby respectfully requested to lay the same before the honorable senate and house of representatives. (Signed) H. GARBANTI, President of the Council. H. L. MYRICK, Speaker of the House.. Military wagon Washakie to Montana. CHAPTER 94. Council Joint Memorial and Resolution No. 11. A MEMORIAL to Congress Praying for an Appropriation to Open and Establish a Territory. To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled : Your memorialst, the legislative assembly of the road from Fort Territory of Wyoming, would most respectfully repreFort Ellis, sent: That it is the opinion of your memorialist that large sums of money would annually be saved to the government of the United States in the cost of freights for supplies for and the transportation of troops destined for service in Montana Territory; that the best interest of a large population in Wyoming and Montana Territories would be subserved and the shortest and most direct route from the Union Pacific railroad to the Yellowstone National Park, be opened to travel, by the construction of a military wagon road from Fort Washakie, in Sweetwater county, Wyoming Territory, northwestwardly, up the valley of the Big Wind river and down the valley of the Yellowstone river, passing through the Yellowstone National Park, and from said park northwardly to Fort Ellis, in Montana Territory; said route being the same surveyed by Capt. W. A. Jones, United States corps of engineers, in the year 1873. The proposed route would traverse a portion of the richest mining and agricultural country of Wyoming Territory, would open to tourist and the traveling public, a certain, safe, and practicable route to the Yellowstone basin and the great Yellowstone National Park, the great wonders and natural curiosities of which have but recently become known to the world at large and which will attract numberless visitors in the near future; and said route would shorten the route now traveled, via Corrinne, Utah, at least two hundred and fifty miles, thus materially lessening the cost of transportation for all military supplies and troops destined for Montana Territory. For these reasons your memorialist respectfully request that your honorable body may grant the necessary aid to construct said military wagon road, and declare the same to be a United States mail route, and as in duty bound we will ever pray. Be it Resolved, That a certified copy of this memorial be forwarded by the secretary of the council to the Hon. S. W. Downey, our delegate in congress, who is hereby respectfully requested to bring the subject matter of this memorial before the senate and house of representatives in congress assembled. (Signed) H. GARBANATI, II. L. MYRICK, Speaker of the House. CHAPTER 95. Council Joint Resolution No. 12, Be it resolved by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming : .copies of the tion and Stock SECTION 1. That six hundred copies of the school, election and stock laws of this Territory be printed in Six, hundred one volume, in pamphlet form, and that the secretary of School, Electhis Territory shall, as soon as printed, send to the clerk laws. of each county now organized, one hundred copies of the same for general distribution, and the remaining one hundred copies to be deposited with the Territorial libra rian. SEC. 2. That the sum of three hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same is Three hundred hereby appropriated out of the Territorial treasury to priated a llars appro defray the expense of printing and distributing the school, election and stock laws herein provided for. Approved December 13, 1879. CHAPTER 96. Council Joint Resolution No. 13. In referenɔe to pay of sixth fegislative a members of A MEMORIAL to the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives, in Your memorialists, the legislative assembly of the sembly, the Territory of Wyoming, respectfully represent that under number of the the law of the United States by which they were elected the Council and performed their duties as legislators, they were for other pur- entitled to six dollars per day, and the presiding officer of each house to eight dollars per day. and House,and poses. WHEREAS, The sum of four dollars for members and six dollars for the presiding officers, only, were appropriated at the session of congress; they therefore pray that a bill be passed providing for the deficiency, amount ing to the sum of three thousand three hundred and sixty ($3,360.00) dollars. They also represent that by an act of congress the number of members of the council was reduced to twelve and of the house to twenty-four, and they represent that even numbers in each house may be an obstruction to legislation and that the addition of one member to each house or that the members of the council be made thirteen and of the house twenty-three, would be more practicable. They also represent that the pay of the members of the legislature is but on a par with the watchman and messenger, and suggest, that as intelligence is, or should be, a requisite of membership, that six dollars per day for services rendered, by most of them away from home, and at great expense in an expensive country, might secure more intelligent legislation, than would the pay of a day laborer, and they also suggest that law, to be binding in a territory, must be as intelligently drafted as the laws that bind the people of a state or of the United States. They also represent that certain officers have always been, and now are, recognized as necessary adjuncts to |