SEC. 11. The owner of any stray, within twelve months from the time of taking up, may prove the same before any justice of the peace, and upon payment of all costs may be entitled to receive the stray.

SEC. 12. If the owner and taker up cannot agree upon the amount of such allowance, it shall be settled by some justice of the peace, who shall take into consideration the trouble and expense of the taker up and whatever use or service he may have had of such stray.

SEC. 13. If the owner fails to comply with the preceding sections for twelve months after the time of taking up, and the taker up shall have complied with the law, a complete title to such stray shall vest in the taker up.

SEC. 14. In all cases where the title to any stray property shall vest in the taker up by lapse of time, the taker up shall pay into the county treasury, after deducting all costs, one half of the appraised value of such stray to the use of the county; and in default of such payment the county shall have a lien on such property to secure the payment of such money to the county and by order of the county court such stray may be sold by the sheriff, and after paying the amount due the county, the residue shall be paid to the taker up after the payment of all incidental costs.

SEC. 15. If any stray, legally taken up, gets away or dies without the fault of the taker up, he shall not be liable for the same.

SEC. 16. There shall be allowed the following reward for taking up strays: First, for every horse, mule or ass, one dollar; for every head of neat cattle, fifty cents; for all other kinds of stock, thirty cents each.

SEC. 17. If any person shall sell, swap, or take out of the Territory any stray before the legal title shall have vested in him, he shall forfeit to the county double the value of such stray, and may also be punished at the discretion of the court before whom he is tried, and forfeit double the value of such stray to the owner thereof.

SEC. 18. If any person unlawfully takes up any stray, or takes up any stray and fails to comply with the provisions of this act, or uses or works such stray in any manner contrary to this act, or uses or works it before having it appraised, or shall keep the same more than three days out of the county before he acquires title to the same, such offender shall forfeit to the county fifty dollars.

SEC. 19. If any person shall take up any stray, and violates or

fails to comply with this act, or abuses or injures such stray, the owner may recover of him double the amount of all injury sustained, with costs.

SEC. 20. If any of the officers mentioned in the foregoing sections of this act fail to perform the duties enjoined upon him by this act, he or they shall forfeit and pay to the county not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars.

SEC. 21. This act to take effect and be in force from and after the tenth day of February, A. D. 1860.

CHAPTER XLIII.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

Resolved by the Council, the House concurring, That the Secretary of the Territory be and is hereby instructed to procure for the use of the Territory of Jefferson, a "seal" to be a least two inches in diameter with the following device inscribed upon the same: The Rocky Mountains to appear in the distance, at their base the foot plains reaching and covering the foreground of the same, on which an emigrant wagon to be shown with emigrants carrying mining tools, with an inscription around the edge of the same (surrounding the above engraving) "The great seal of the Territory of Jefferson," and in the upper side of said circle to appear the words, "The people are the government.'

This certifies that part third of this statute was passed and referred to the commissioners appointed by the first session of the general assembly of the Territory of Jefferson and that the same was again reported to the Council and House of Representatives at the call session and by them adopted.

Approved January 25th, 1860.

JAMES A. GRAY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

ELI CARTER,

President Pro Tem. of the Council.

L. W. BLISS,

Acting Governor.

PART FOURTH.

SPECIAL ACTS.

CHAPTER I.

AN ACT

To Charter and Consolidate the Towns of Denver, Auraria and Highland.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Provisional Government of the Territory of Jefferson, the Governor approving:-That all that tract of country described as follows, to wit: commencing on the north-west side of the South Platte River, at that point where the most north-eastern portion of the northeast line of Denver Town Plat produced would touch high water mark; thence following said line to the north corner of said Town Plat, thence along the north-east line of said Town Plat to the east corner, thence along the south-east line of said Town Plat to the point where it intersects Cherry Creek, thence up said creek to the point where the south-easterly line of the Auraria Town Plat intersects it, thence along said line and said produced to high water mark on the north-west bank of the South Platte River, thence down said river to the point where the most south-westerly line of the Highland Town Site produced would intersect it, thence along said produced line and said line, thence following the line of said town plat with its angles to the westerly corner of said town site, thence along the north-westerly line of said town site to the northerly corner, thence along the most north-easterly line and the same produced to high water mark on the South Platte River, thence down said river to the point of beginning is hereby erected into a city, by the name and style of the City of Denver, Auraria and Highland; and the inhabitants thereof are hereby constituted a body, corporate and politic, by the name and style of the city of Denver, Auraria and Highland and by that name they and their