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AN ACT to Locate and Establish a Territorial Wagon Road from Rawlins, in Carbon
County, to Camp Brown, in Sweetwater County.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Ter-
ritory of Wyoming :

ers to locate.

SECTION 1. That J. C. Dyer, J. G. Rankin and William Casto, Commissionbe, and are hereby authorized to act as commissioners to locate and establish a Territorial wagon-road from Rawlins, in Carbon county, to Camp Brown, in Sweetwater county.

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SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of said commissioners or a major- Place of meetity of them, to meet at Rawlins, in the aforesaid county, on or before the fifteenth day of June, A. D. 1876, and proceed to locate said road over the most direct and practical route to Camp Brown, in Sweetwater county; Provided, however, The cost thereof shall Provided. not exceed one hundred and fifty dollars.

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missioners, a

true account.

SEC. 3. The said commissioners shall, at the conclusion of Report to the their labors, make to the county commissioners of said Carbon county, an account of the expenses incurred in the performance of their duties, including a reasonable compensation for their own services, not exceeding said sum. The county commissioners shall examine said account, and certify to its correctness, and that the work has been completed, and shall forward the same so certified, to the Territorial auditor, who is hereby authorized and required, upon the receipt of the certificates of said board of county commissioners, to draw his warrant upon the Territorial treasurer for Auditor to the amount thereof, not exceeding said sum of one hundred and draw his warfifty dollars, and the said treasurer shall pay the same out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; Provided, That Proviso. Sweetwater county shall not be required, at any time, to appropriate any money, or its equivalent in county warrants, towards opening, making, keeping up, or repairing said road.

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

Approved, December 11, 1875.

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rant.

AN ACT to Locate and Establish a Territorial Wagon Road from Evanston, Uinta
County, to Smith's Fork.

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

SECTION 1. That C. A. Phipps, Newel Beeman and Wm. G. Commission
Tonn, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to locate ers to locate.
and establish a Territorial wagon road from the town of Evanston,
Uinta county, to Smith's Fork and Bear River, in said county.

to

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of said commissioners, or a majority when and of them, to meet at Evanston, in the aforesaid county, on or before where the first day of June, A. D. 1876, and proceed to locate said road, cause a map or plat of the same to be made, and filed in the office Cause a map of the county clerk of said county, and designate the same on the fled. ground in a perceptible manner.

or plat to be

SEC. 3. The cost of locating said road shall not exceed, in the Cost of road. aggregate, the sum of two hundred dollars, which shall be paid

auditor.

out of any money in the Territorial treasury, and it is hereby made Duty of the the duty of the Territorial auditor to audit and allow the account of said commissioners, certified to by the clerk of Uinta county, that a map or plat of said road, as provided for in section two of this act, has been filed, and also certified to by the board of the county commissioners of said county of Uinta, whereupon said auditor shall draw a warrant for the amounts so due, on the Territorial treasurer.

Warrants.

Repealed.

In force.

SEC. 4. That an act entitled "An act to locate and establish a Territorial wagon road from Evanston, Uinta county, to Smith's Fork," approved 16th December, 1871, be and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, December 3, 1875.

CHAPTER 115.

TIME OF TAKING EFFECT OF CERTAIN ACTS.

AN ACT fixing the time of the taking Effect of certain Acts named therein, and for other Purposes.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Terri

tory of Wyoming :

take effect.

SECTION 1. That all acts passed at the present session of the Acts, when to legislative assembly of the Territory of Wyoming which do not provide in the act itself, for the taking effect thereof, shall take effect and be in force on and after the eleventh day of December, inst., except as provided in the next succeeding section.

SEC. 2. That an act entitled "an act to establish the courts of, Exceptions. and define the jurisdiction of justices of the peace," an act entitled "an act defining crime and providing for the punishment thereof," an act entitled "an act to establish a code of civil procedure for the Territory of Wyoming," an act entitled "an act to establish a code of criminal procedure for the Territory of Wyoming," shall take effect and be in force on and after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

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

Approved, 10th December, 1869.

CHAPTER 116.

Original owner shall cause

made.

Description of

TOWNSITES.

AN ACT to Provide a Uniform Method of Platting and Dedicating Townsites.

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

SECTION 1. Every original owner or proprietor of any tract or plat of sub. parcel of land, who has heretofore sub-divided, or shall hereafter. division to be sub-divide, the same into three or more parts, for the purpose of laying out any town or city, or any addition thereto, or any part thereof, or suburban lots, shall cause a plat of such sub-division, with references to known or permanent monuments to be made, which shall accurately describe all the sub-divisions of such tract sub-divisions. or parcel of land, numbering the same by progressive numbers, and giving the dimensions, and length and breadth thereof, and the breadth and courses of all the streets and alleys established Description of therein. Descriptions of lots or parcels of land in such sub-divisber, legal for ions, according to the number and designation thereof, on said purposes of plat contained, in conveyances, or for the purposes of taxation, shall be deemed good and valid for all intents and purposes. The duty to file for record a plat, as provided herein, shall attach as a covenant of warranty, in all conveyances of any part or parcel of such sub-divisions by the original owners or proprietors, against any and all assessments, costs and damages, paid, lost or incurred by any grantee, or person claiming under him, in consequence of the omission on the part of said owner or proprietors to file such plat.

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conveyance taxation.

Duty to fle plat shall at

tach as a covranty in all

enant of war

Conveyances.

Every plat

statement

Owners and

SEC. 2. Every such plat shall contain a statement, to the effect shall contain that the above, or foregoing sub-divisions of (here insert a correct signed by description of the land or parcel sub-divided) as appears on this proprietors. plat, is with the free consent, and in accordance with the desire of the undersigned, owners and proprietors, which shall be signed Acknowledg by the owners and proprietors, and shall be duly acknowledged ment neces before some officer authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds; and when thus executed and acknowledged, said plat shall Plat shall be be filed for record and recorded in the office of the clerk of the filled in county

clerk's office. proper county.

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Acknowledg. SEC. 3. The acknowledgment and recording of such plat, is cording of plat equivalent to a deed in fee simple of such portion of the premises equivalent to platted as is on such plat set apart for streets, or other public use, simple. or is thereon dedicated to charitable, religious or educational pur

deed in fee

poses.

leys, how al

SEC. 4. Streets and alleys so platted and laid out, or which Street and alhave been platted or laid out under any prior law of this Territory tered or varegulating private plats, may be altered or vacated in the manner cated. provided by law for the alteration or discontinuance of highways.

cated.

SEC. 5. Any such plat may be vacated by the proprietors thereof Plats, how vaat any time before the sale of any lots therein, by a written instrument declaring the same to be vacated, duly executed, acknowledged, or proved and recorded in the same office with the plat to be vacated, and the execution and recording of such writing shall operate to destroy the force and effect of the recording of the plat so vacated, and to divert all public rights in the streets, alleys, commons and public grounds, laid out or described in such plat, and in cases where any lots have been sold, the plat may be vacated In case of sale as herein provided, by all the owners of lots in such plat joining plats may be in the execution of the writing aforesaid.

of any lots,

vacated, how.

SEC. 6. Any part of a plat may be vacated under the provisions, Part of plat and subject to the conditions, of this act; Provided, Such vacating may be vadoes not abridge or destroy any of the rights and privileges of other Proviso. proprietors in said plat; And provided further, That nothing con- Further protained in this section shall authorize the closing or obstructing of any public highways laid out according to law.

viso.

how appro

vacated.

SEC. 7. When any part of a plat shall be vacated as aforesaid, streets, etc.. the proprietors of the lots so vacated, may enclose the streets, printed in alleys and public grounds adjoining said lots in equal proportions. parts of plats SEC. 8. The county clerk, in whose office the plats aforesaid Duty of clerk are recorded, shall write in plain, legible letters, across that part cation of plat. of said plat so vacated, the word "vacated," and also make a reference on the same to the volume and page in which the said instrument of vacation is recorded.

in case of va

cated lots may

numbered.

SEC. 9. The owner of any lots in a plat so vacated, may cause Owner of vathe same and a proportionate part of adjacent streets and public cause same to grounds to be platted and numbered by the county surveyor; and be platted and when such plat is acknowledged by such owner, and is recorded in the clerk's office of the county, such lots may be conveyed and assessed by the numbers given them on such plat.

ure to file plat,

clerk

county
shall notify

lot owners.

SEC. 10. Whenever the original owner or proprietor of any In case of failsub-divison of land, as contemplated in section one of this act, has sold or conveyed any part thereof, or invested the public with any rights therein, and has failed and neglected to execute and file for record a plat, as provided in section one of this act, the county clerk shall notify some, or all, of such owners and proprietors by mail or otherwise, and demand the execution of said plat as provided; and if such owners or proprietors, whether so notified or not, fail and neglect to execute and file for record said plat Duty of clerk for thirty days after the issuance of such notice, the county clerk ther neglect of shall cause to be made the plat of such sub-division, and any sur- thirty days. veying necessary therefor. Said plat shall be signed and acknowledged by the county clerk, who shall certify that he executed [it] by reason of the failure of the owners or proprietors named to do

in case of fur

so, and filed for record; and when so filed for record, shall have Erre et of the same effect for all purposes, as if executed, acknowledged and clerk's fling. recorded by the owners or proprietors themselves. A correct statement of the costs and expenses of such plat, surveying and

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