Sec. 3. The county seat of said county is hereby located at County seat South Pass City. ioners when to quality meetings or board & o. Sec. 4. The county commissioners herein appointed shall, on County commi or before the first day of May next, qualify and enter upon the discharge of their duties, and as soon as two or more shall qualify may hold a meeting of the board at the county seat of said county, first giving ten days notice of such meeting by publication in a newspaper published in said county, if there be one, if not, by posting notices in at least five of the most public places in said county, and may continue in session five days if the busi ness requires it. At such meeting or at any subsequent regular meeting, said board may fill all vacancies that may exist in the county offices, and such persons so appointed shall hold until the next ensuing general election. Sec. 5. The county commissioners shall have the power at Their powers any regular meeting of the board to make an order increasing the fees of the county officers of said county: Provided, however, That the fees of said officers shall not be increased more than four times what is now allowed by law. Sec. 6. The said county is hereby attached to the county of county attached Laramie for representative and judicial purposes. to Laramie Sec. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and when to take after its passage and approval. Approved, December 27, 1869. effect CHAPTER VIII. AN ACT TO RE-ORGANIZE THE COUNTY OF LARAMIE. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota: Certain act of "" the session laws of 1866 67 Section 1. That chapter of the session laws of 1866 67, entitled "an act to create and establish the county of Laramie,' approved January 9th, 1867, be and the same is hereby repeal Boundaries of Laramie county appointment of cers Gounty commiss foners to fill vacancies Notaries public County Seat County entitled $ one ed, and all elections held or pretended to be held under and by virtue of said act is hereby declared null and void and shall be held for naught. Sec. 2. That all that portion of the Territory of Dakota, west of the one hundred and fourth meridian west, and east of the one hundred and seventh degree and thirty minutes west, be, and the same is, hereby erected into a county by the name of Laramie, and the following officers are hereby appointed for said county to act until the next ensuing general election and until their successors are duly elected and qualified: County commissioners-Benjamin Ellinger, Roger T. Beal and Patrick McDonald. Sheriff J. L. Laird. Judge of Probate-Wm. L. Kuykendall. Register of Deeds-Wm. Morris. Justices of the Peace-N. J. Bond, A. B. Moore, and Lewis Loweril. Constable-James Masterson. Coroner-F. W. Johnson. County Superintendent of Public Instruction-J. H. Gildersleeve. Surveyor-S. H. Winson. District Attorney-Ed. P. Johnson. Sec. 3. The county commissioners may fill all vacancies in county offices and the persons so appointed shall hold their respective offices until the next general election and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. Sec. 4. The Governor may appoint as many notaries public for said county as he may deem necessary. Sec. 5. The county seat of said county is hereby located at the city of Cheyenne. Sec. 6. Until otherwise provided by law said county shall be representative entitled to one member of the IIouse of Representatives of the Legislative Assembly. in the Legisla tive assembly When to take fect Sec. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved, January 3, 1868. CHAPTER IX. AN ACT TO ORGANIZE THE COUNTY OF LINCOLN. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota: Officers & Section 1. That all that portion of the Territory of Dakota, Boundaries embraced within the following described boundaries shall be known as the county of Lincoln, to wit: Commencing at a point on the Big Sioux river at the north east corner of Union. county, it being the north east corner of Township No. 95 north, thence west to the south west corner of Township No. 96 north of range fifty-three west; thence east to the Big Sioux riyer; thence down and along the course of said river to the place of beginning. The county seat of said county, to be at Canton, on the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section No. fourteen, Township No. ninety-eight north of Range forty-nine west. And that until the next ensuing general election, the following named persons be appointed officers of said county, to wit: Augustus J. Linderman, H. P. Hyde, Benjamin Hill, county commissioners; C. H. Smith, sheriff; J. Q. Fitsgerald, probate judge; William Hill, register of deeds; W. Hyde and W. S. Smith, justices of the peace; James Weekly, constable; Joseph Weekly, coroner. And that the said officers be em powered to discharge all the duties pertaining to their several offices. Provided, That the said county of Lincoln shall remain as now, attached to Union county for Representative and Judicial purposes. effect Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and when to take after its passage and approval by the governor. Approved December 30, 1867. County commiss fouers Register of deeds When to take foct CHAPTER X. · AN ACT TO ORGANIZE THE COUNTY OF MINNEHAHA. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota: Section 1. That John Nelson, John Thompson, and Wm. Melville, be, and the same are hereby appointed county commissioners of the county of Minnehaha, and said county commissioners shall have full power and authority to appoint all other officers for said county to complete the orgrnization of said county of Minnehaha. Sec. 2. That Edward Broughton be, and he is hereby appointed register of deeds of said county of Minnehaha. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval. Approved, January 4, 1868. CHEYENNE CITY. Description CHAPTER XI. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CITY OF CHEYENNE, DAKOTA TERRITORY. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Section 1. That all that portion of territory surveyed, laid out and platted as a town site, situated on Crow Creek where the Union Pacific Railroad crosses the same, together with all the additions that may be hereafter made thereto, according to law, is hereby de clared to be a corporation by the name of the "City of Cheyenne." Sec. 2. The said city is hereby made a body corporate and politic, city made a and is invested with all the powers and attributes of a municipal body politic corporation, and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, complain and defend in any court of record, and any other place whatsoever; may have a common scal, and may alter the same at pleasure, and may take, hold, purchase, lease, convey and dispose of any real, personal, or mixed estate, for the use of said corporation. Sec. 3. The legislative authority of said city is hereby vested in a Legislative city council, composed of a mayor and board of aldermen, consisting vested of six members. suthority where tute a citizen Sec. 4. Every legal voter of the Territory who shall have been a what to const resident of the city thirty days next preceding a city election, is declared a citizen of said city, and is entitled to vote at all the elections thereof, Sec. 5. The election of city officers shall be in a manner similar Election of dy to county elections, as near as the nature of the ease admits. officers Voters Sec 6. A person offering to vote may be challenged as in other challenging of elections in the county, and an oath may be administered to him in like manner, naming the qualifications herein prescribed. Sec. 7. No person shall be eligible to any elective office mentioned Eligibility ✨❤ in this act, unless he be a legal voter of the city. office when held Sec. 8. The annual election for city officers shall be held on the Annual election last Monday in December in each and every year and the officers elect shall qualify and enter upon the discharge of their duties on the first Monday in January thereafter; Provided, however, That in case the last Monday of December should be the 25th of said month, the election shall take place on the Tuesday following; Pro- Proviso vided further, That the commissioners named in the ninth section of this act shall have the full power to fix the day for holding the first election of officers under this act, by giving at least five days notice of each election, and officers elected at such first election shall qualify and enter upon the discharge of their duties, in one week from the day of such election. of election Sec. 9. That J. P. Bartlett, G. M. O'Brien and William Martin, Commissionens are hereby appointed commissioners to conduct the first election under this act, to canvass the votes and to issue certificates of election to the officers clect. Sec. 10. In all elections for city officers, after the first, the mayor Notice shall issue a proclamation to the voters of the city, naming the election time and place of such election, and officers to be chosen, and causo |