Place of sale. Disposition of money. Appraisers. Compensation. Costs. Notice the said treasurer to the credit of the general school funds of said county. SEC. 6. The place of sale shall be at the office of the justice before whom the estray is posted. SEC. 7. The money received from the sale of an estray shall go into the county school fund, all expenses first being paid. SEC. 8. The appraisers of estrays shall estimate the value of the necessary labor, trouble and expense of the person in taking up and keeping an estray, taking into consideration the services rendered by the animal. SEC. 9. The appraisers of estrays shall receive fifty cents each for each appraisement, but when more than one animal is taken up at any one time, by one person, they shall all be appraised as one, and the appraisers shall be entitled to compensation for but one appraisement. The justice of the peace shall receive for his services the sum of three dollars. SEC. 10. The costs of advertising, appraising, and the services of the justice of the peace, shall be paid by the person taking up the estray, and he shall receive the same with fifty per cent. additional, from the proceeds of the sale of the estray. SEC. 11. If any horse or ass not gelded, two years old or upwards, shall be found running at large, it shall be lawful for any person to take up such horse or ass, and forthwith give notice to the owner or keeper, if he be known to the taker-up, and if the owner or keeper do not appear within six days thereafter, and pay to the said taker-up, five dollars, as compensation for his trouble, the taker-up shall proceed to advertise said horse or mule, and the same proceedings shall be had in every respect as herein before provided in the case of estray horses and mules: Provided, That the taker-up may, after the expiration of thirty days from the time of advertising, geld or procure to be gelded, the said horse or ass, which shall be done at the risk and expense of the owner, except when such horse or ass is in the owner's herd, or in care of the owner's herder. SEC. 12. Should any animal, taken up as an estray, die while in the possession of the person taking it up, he shall not be liable for the loss, unless its death was the result of mistreatment or wilful neglect. Approved, 9th December, 1869. SEAT OF GOVERNMENT CHAPTER 88. AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT OF WYOMING TERRITORY. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming: SEC. 1. The seat of government for the territory of Wyoming is hereby located and established at the city of Cheyenne, in the county of Laramie in said territory. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from from and after its passage. Approved 10th December, 1869. Seat of gov ernment. RESOLUTIONS AND MEMORIALS. Extension of session CHAPTER 87. RESOLUTION. Be it Resolved by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming: That the present session of the legislative assembly of the territory of Wyoming, be, and is hereby extended to sixty days from the twelfth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. Approved, November 20, 1869. CHAPTER 88. Appropriation. JOINT RESOLUTION FOR AN APPROPRIATION TO DEFRAY THE EXPENSES Be it Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Council concurring; That a sum of money not to exceel seven hundred and fifty dollars, be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the territorial treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expenses incurred in the transportation of prisoners from the territory of Wyoming, to the house of correction at Detroit, Michigan. Approved, December 8, 1869. CHAPTER 89. JOINT RESOLUTION. Be it Resolved by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming: SEC. 1. That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby appropriated for the objects herein specified to be paid out of any money in the territorial treasury not otherwise appropriated, viz: For the expense of transporting and subsisting convicts, three thousand five hundred dollars; for compensation of territorial officers, five thousand dollars; territorial officers' contingent fund, three thousand dollars; for contingent expenses for the governor's office for two years, twelve hundred dollars; L. L. Bedell and Company, five hundred and eleven dollars and forty-four cents; for printing, two hundred and thirty-eight dollars and fifty-six cents. That the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars be appropriated for the benefit of William C. Stanley, and two hundred and fifty dollars to Edward Orpen, for compensation of writing up and indexing the journals of both houses. Approved, December 10, 1869. Appropriation. CHAPTER 90. MEMORIAL. To His Excellency, U. S. Grant, President of the United States :-Your memorialists, the legislative assembly of the territory of Wyoming would respectfully represent that by the terms of a treaty between the United States and Shoshone and Bannock Indians, concluded at Fort Bridger, July 3, 1868, and ratified February 16, 1869, a large and valuable portion of the territory of Wyoming, then and still occupied by citizens of the United States for mining and agricultural purposes, was ceded to the Shoshones to the great injury of Memorial. the numerous settlers, then and previously occupying and developing that portion of the public domain. The large and flourishing mining community known as Hamilton city or "Miner's Delight," which has already contributed extraordinary amounts of gold dust and bullion to the world, and numerous other gold producing creeks and gulches tributary to the Papo-Agie and Wind rivers, are within the limits of the district ceded as a reservation to those Indians. The whites occupying and cultivating the lands of the PapoAgie and Wind river valleys were bona-fide settlers thereon, a year previous to the conclusion of said treaty, and these settlers and miners are now, and for the past year have been treated as intruders and trespassers, notwithstanding their permanent and valuable improvements, and are almost entirely without the benefits of civil law, being, by virtue of said treaty, placed beyond the jurisdiction of the courts of this territory, a condition of affairs subjecting them to many privations and great injustice. Your memorialists would further represent to your excellency the fact that the Shoshones could not live in peace upon said reserve, owing to the proximity of that tract of country to the heart of that portion of the territory occupied by their hereditary enemies, the Sioux and northern Cheyennes, who, during the spring, summer and fall, make continuous warlike raids into the valleys of Wind river and Papo-Agie, driving out and slaughtering indiscriminately settlers and Shoshones, and that the expected presence of the Shoshones renders the situation of the settlers more precarious than it would be did the Sioux and Cheyennes not hope to there meet and exterminate the Shoshones. It is further a well known fact to settlers and mountaineers of the district and reservation in question, that for their security in summer, the Shoshones are compelled to emigrate into Utah, and for their subsistence in winter, they are compelled to seek game beyond Owl creek, the northern boundary of their reservation. Thus it is, that while the reservation is utterly valueless to the Shoshones, affording them neither safety from their enemies nor game for their |