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Four volumes bound in one, each with titlepage. [2],274; [2],242; [2],447; 72,[6]pp. Contemporary law sheep with gilt leather labels, boards tooled in blind. Front board detached with first two blank leaves and titlepage, following five leaves loose from binding. Backstrip loosening, still connected at rear hinge, spine labels cracked and peeling; binding otherwise somewhat rubbed and scraped. Interior variously tanned by volume but clean, except for stab holes throughout in the blank gutter margin from the previous bindings. Final work significantly more tanned but still very clean. Ownership signature in pencil on titlepage of each work, with a few pencil annotations in the same hand scattered throughout. Overall very good internally in a quite worn binding. In a tan cloth clamshell case with gilt leather label. Sammelband of the Session Laws from four Wyoming Legislative Assemblies; the final two for Wyoming Territory and the first two after Wyoming achieved statehood. Some laws of note from the Tenth Legislative Assembly include a law repealing the previously existing government bounty for the arrest of cattle thieves, a law granting the Women's Christian Temperance Union the same privileges as Masonic lodges, and the establishment of a board of livestock commissioners who "shall exercise a general supervision over, and, so far as may be, protect the live stock interests of the territory from theft and disease, and shall recommend from time to time such legislation as, in their judgment, will foster said industry." A number of other livestock- focused laws were also passed at this assembly and include provisions for the government seizure and sale of mavericks, jail time for anyone issuing or purchasing false pedigrees, and a law requiring railroad companies to pay indemnities if they strike livestock. Also of particular note is a law granting married women the same property rights as single women, i.e. the right to "grant bargain, sell, remise, release, convey, transfer, and assign to whom, and upon such terms, as to her may seem meet and proper, the whole or any portion of her property of every kind." The Eleventh Assembly in 1890 passed a law to encourage the hunting of coyotes, wolves, mountain lions, and bear at a rate of 75 cents per coyote, $3 per wolf, and $6 for a or bear or mountain lion, a law offering rewards for planting trees, and a law giving honorably discharged Union soldiers preference for employment in any public positions, including a provision that "physical impairment which does not in any way incapacitate in the discharge of duties shall not disqualify." This assembly also saw the creation of Big Horn County, a memorial asking for an extension on the timeline for Union Pacific's debt so they could continue to expand in Wyoming, and a house joint memorial "Relating to the Phil Kearney massacre of December 21st, 1866" asking for a monument to be built and installed at the site. The first session laws for Wyoming after it achieved statehood cover 1890 and 1891. This publication contains the entire constitution for the State of Wyoming, along with a law creating a non-discrimination clause "on account of religious belief or sex" for teachers at public schools, and the resolved building of a monument to Fremont. The laws from the second State Legislature of Wyoming are fairly brief. Of note is a memorial urging congress to recognize Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico as states. Attached to the rear pastedown is a four- page folding "Memoranda of Repeals, Amendments, and Re-enactments (not those by implication) of the Laws which have been made by the Legislature of Wyoming since 1887." STOPKA WYOMING IMPRINTS 1888.15, 1890.8. WYOMING IMPRINTS 137, 159. Seller Inventory # WRCAM57041
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