the per diem of members and officers, shall be deemed incidental expenses of the session.

SEC. 4. The following amounts are hereby appropriated for the uses specified, viz:

First: The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Speaker of the Council, shall each receive twelve dollars per diem, for each day of this session.

SEC. 5. The members of the House of Representatives and the Council, shall each receive ten dollars per diem, for each day of this session.

Second: The Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives and Secretary of the Council, shall each receive twelve dollars per diem, for each day of this session.

SEC. 6. The Engrossing and Enrolling Clerks of the Council and House of Representatives, shall each receive twelve dollars per diem, for each day of this session; and that the Assistant Engrossing Clerks shall receive such pay only for the time they shall act; provided, that the Engrossing and Enrolling Clerks of the Council shall not receive more than twelve dollars per day for his services for each day actually engaged as such clerk.

SEC. 7. The Assistant Clerks of the House of Representatives and Council, shall each receive twelve dollars per diem for each day of this session.

SEC. 8. The Sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives and Council, shall each receive ten dollars per diem, for each day of this session.

SEC. 9. The Messengers of the House of Representatives and Council, shall each receive six dollars per diem, for each day of this session.

SEC. 10. Mr.

shall receive for cabinet work, for the

House of Representatives, the sum of fifty dollars.

SEC. 11. Mr. N. G. Wyatt shall receive for stationery furnished to the Council and House of Representatives, the sum of thirty dollars.

SEC. 12. Messrs. Byers & Co. shall receive, for printing Rules of House, for the General Assembly, the sum of fifty dollars.

SEC. 13. Mr. H. J. Rogers shall receive, for room rent for the Council, the sum of thirty-five dollars.

SEC. 14. J. G. Simms shall receive the sum of fifty dollars, for room rent, for the use of the House of Representatives.

SEC. 15.

Each number of the Council and the House of Representatives shall receive fifty cents per mile, for every mile of necessary travel in coming to and going from, the place of meeting of the General Assembly.

Approved December 7th, 1859.

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

AN ACT

Providing for the Payment of Warrants, and other purposes.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Provisional Government of the Territory of Jefferson, the Governor approving:-That all warrants drawn by the Auditor on the Treasurer, shall be paid by the Treasurer only in the order in which they are drawn, according to the priority of date-provided that all warrants are receivable into the Treasury in payment of any taxes, licenses, or other dues due the Territory.

SEC. 2. That all warrants bearing date on the same day, have equal priority, and shall be paid in the order in which they are presented for payment.

SEC. 3. That the Auditor shall issue his warrants on the Treasurer in any sum that the party may desire, entitled to the same— provided they shall not be less than five dollars, unless the sum due is less than that amount.

Approved December 3d, 1859.

CHAPTER XXXIX.

AN ACT

To provide for the Redemption of Warrants and other Purposes.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Provisional Government of the Territory of Jefferson, the Governor approving:-That the warrants drawn by the Auditor of this Ter

ritory on the Treasurer, shall be received by the Sheriff or Collector of the Revenue in payment of taxes, fines, and penalties, or other dues to the Territory, at par, and shall be received from such officer by the Treasurer in settlement of revenue due from such Sheriff or Collector of the Territory.

SEC. 2. That all warrants drawn by the County Court of any county on the county Treasurer, shall be received by the Sheriff or Collector, for all taxes, fines, and penalties, or other dues to the county, at par, and shall be received by such Treasurer from such Sheriff or Collector, on settlement of his accounts with the county.

SEC. 3. No Sheriff or Collector of the Revenue shall buy, purchase, trade for, or in any manner deal, in the warrants drawn by the Auditor or by any county court, except at their par value, and for every offence committed against the provisions of this act, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars. Approved December 7th, 1859.

CHAPTER XL.

AN ACT

To provide for the payment of the Commissioners for the Codification of the Laws, etc.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Provisional Government of the Territory of Jefferson, the Governor approving:-That the Commissioners to prepare a civil code and criminal code, shall be allowed forty days in which to complete said work; and they are hereby allowed ten dollars per day for each day actually employed in said work, provided they shall not exceed the time above specified, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 2. That said commissioners are authorized to employ one clerk each, to assist them in said work, upon such terms as they think reasonable; the same to be audited and paid as other acts against the Territory.

Approved December 7th, 1859.

CHAPTER XLI.

AN ACT

For the Form of Warrants, and other Purposes.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Provi sional Government of the Territory of Jefferson, the Governor approving:—All warrants drawn by the auditor on the treasury of the Territory, shall be in the following form:

Denver City, Jefferson Territory,

No. Treasurer of the Territory, of Jefferson, pay to or order not otherwise appropriated, and charge the same to and this shall be your voucher. Issued

dollars, out of any money in the treasury

A. D. 18

(Signed)

Auditor of Jefferson Territory.

Approved December 7th, 1859.

CHAPTER XLII.

AN ACT

Regulating the taking up and posting of Estrays.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Provisional Government of the Territory of Jefferson, the Governor approving: No person shall be authorized to take up any stray beast, unless he be a citizen of, and house-holder in the county where such stray shall be taken up, unless he first enter into bond with sufficient security, to the Territory of Jefferson, for the use of the owner, in double the amount of the property proposed to be taken up, to be ascertained by the justice before whom the person wishes to post such stray beast.

SEC. 2. If any person take up any stray of any kind and it be not claimed and proved, he shall, within five days, go before a

justice of the peace of the county, and make oath that said stray was found by him, going at large, and that he has good reason to believe, and does believe, that it had strayed or become lost from its owner, and that the marks and brands had not been altered since so strayed or lost, to his knowledge.

SEC. 3. If necessary, the justice shall issue a summons to three disinterested house-holders to appear and appraise the stray.

SEC. 4. The house-holders, or two of them, shall take an oath that they will fully, fairly, and impartial appraise the same, and their appraisement, embracing a description of the size, color, sex, age, marks and brands of the stray, shall be entered by the justice in a book to be kept by him for that purpose.

SEC. 5. The justice shall deliver to each taker up, two certified copies of the entry upon his stray book, one of which he shall within ten days after such appraisement, cause to be delivered to the clerk of the county court.

SEC. 6. The taker up shall immediately after the appraisement, cause a notice to be posted up at three of the most public places in the township in which the stray is posted, which shall contain a copy of the entry upon the justices' stray book.

SEC. 7. The clerk of the county court shall, immediately after receiving the certificate of any stray from the justice, record the same in a book to be kept by him for that purpose.

SEC. 8. The secretary of the Territory shall, on the first day of January in each year, contract with the publisher of some newspaper published within the Territory, for the publishing once in each month a list of all stray notices, certified to from the clerks of the respective county courts, and immediately notify the clerks of the said courts of such contracts, a copy of said paper containing such list to be sent by such publisher to the clerks of the county courts for each county in the Territory immediately after its publication, which papers shall be kept in the office of the clerk, for public inspection.

SEC. 9. The clerks of the respective county courts shall on the first day of each month, transmit to the publisher of such paper a certified list, containing a brief, concise description of all strays certified to him during the month previous.

SEC. 10. Any person may use a stray legally taken up and posted by him, if he does so with care and moderation and does not abuse or injure it.