Hearing of Petition.

Section 4. Within five (5) days after the receipt of such notice by the Commissioner of Public Lands said Commissioner shall set the matter down for hearing before the said Board of Land Commissioners on a certain date not less than thirty (30) days nor more than sixty (60) days from the date of the receipt of the said notice, and shall notify the contract holder of said day at which time said contract holder shall appear either in person or by counsel for the purpose of executing the necessary papers, conveyances and acquittances in accordance with the said notice.

Default in Payments Payment of Interest.

Section 5. Where any contract holder of any contract is in default by reason of failure to pay any installment of principal or accrued interest thereon during 1919, 1920, 1921, or 1922, there shall be no forfeiture of said contract declared by reason of such default until after January 1, 1928; Provided, however, that on or before the first day of July, 1923, the said holder shall pay to the Commissioner of Public Lands all defaulted interest on the principal sum stipulated in said contract, and shall thereafter promptly pay the interest at the time and place stipulated in the contract: Provided, further, that the time for the payment of each installment of the principal on said contract shall be extended for the term and period of five (5) years from and after the date specified in the contract for the payment of such installment.

Forfeiture May be Set Aside.

Section 6. Where any forfeiture of any contract for the purchase of State or School Lands has been declared by the Commissioner of Public Lands because of any default in the payment of the 1919, 1920, 1921 or 1922 installments of principal or interest, the contract holder at the time of the declaration of said forfeiture, or his assignee under any assignment prior to January 1, 1923, shall have the right on or before July 1, 1923, to have said declaration of forfeiture and the forfeiture thereunder set aside, and his contract and rights in and to the lands embraced in his contract re-established with all the rights of a contractee or assignee as in this act set forth, providing that said lands since said forfeiture had not been otherwise disposed of. In the event that said land has been otherwise disposed of, then said contractee or assignee shall have the right on or before July 1, 1923, to make application for the purchase of other State or School lands subject to sale, and if he should become the purchaser of the same, he shall have the right to apply on the purchase thereof such principal sum as said contract holder or his assignors shall have paid upon the land described in the forfeited contract. Rights of Assignee.

Section 7. Any person who contracted for or became the assignee of any contract for the purchase of any State or School lands prior to January 1, 1923, and where no arrears existed in relation to said contract in payment or payments of principal or interest on January 1, 1919, shall have the right at any time prior to July 1, 1923, to deliver up and surrender his said contract and to lease said land for a period not exceeding five (5) years, at a fair annual rental value thereof, and shall be entitled to a credit on said rental value of the aggregate amount of interest paid by him or his assignors on the purchase price of said land less the rental value of said land during the time that he has held possession of the same.

Husband and Wife Considered One Person.

Section 8. For the purpose of this act, the husband and wife contract holder or contract holders shall be considered as one person.

Not Applicable to Land Purchased for Speculative Purposes.

Section 9. This Act shall not affect any contract for the purchase of any State or School lands where the same has been purchased for speculative purposes or for any other purpose than for grazing and agricultural purposes. Notice to Purchasers by Commissioner of Public Lands.

Section 10. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Public Lands to transmit to each purchaser who has not received the title to his land, and to each lessee, and their assignees of record, a letter setting forth the terms of this act within thirty days following the passage of the same.

Failure of Holders of Certificate of Purchase Annuls Rights.

Section 11. Failure on the part of any holder of a certificate of purchase of State or School lands to comply with the provisions of this act within the time specified herein shall impose the penalty of cancellation of said certificate of purchase in every case where such cancellation would be authorized if this law had not been enacted.

Relief Measure Only.

Section 12. This Act is passed solely on account of the emergency relating to the years herein described, and shall not operate as a repeal of any existing law or as a precedent, but is intended as a relief act only for those delinquent as provided herein.

Section 13. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 3, 1923.

CHAPTER 97.

Senate File No. 121.

INDEMNITY FOR PEACE OFFICERS.

AN ACT to provide indemnity for peace officers killed or injured in the discharge of their duties; the accumulation of a fund therefor, making an appropriation of $25,000.00, and for other purposes.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Wyoming Peace Officers Indemnity Fund.

Section 1. The fund accumulated under this act shall be known as the Wyoming Peace Officers Indemnity Fund.

Officers Included.

Section 2. Such Peace Officers Indemnity Fund shall be accumulated and maintained as herein provided for the purpose of providing indemnity to all penitentiary wardens, deputy penitentiary wardens, penitentiary guards; guards of the Wyoming Industrial Institute, including the Superintendent and his deputies; agents of the State Department of law Enforcement and the Commissioner of such Department and his deputies; State Game and Fish Commissioner and his assistants and deputies, and State Game Wardens; and all salaried sheriffs, under sheriffs, deputy sheriffs and constables employed by any county of the State of Wyoming or paid by the Board of County Commissioners of any county, who shall be injured in the performance of their duties, the purpose of this act being to provide for

indemnity to such peace officers injured in the performance of their duties, which duties are hereby recognized as involving risks to life and limb. This act shall not apply in any case where the injury occurred before the date on which this act is to take effect.

Limit of Indemnity Paid.

Section 3. The indemnity which any such peace officer or his dependent family shall be entitled to receive under the provisions of this shall be computed according to the compensation schedule of the Wyoming Workmen's Compensation Law in effect at the time such injuries were received, and the procedure and forms under this act shall be as near as may be the procedure and forms provided by the Workmen's Compensation law, it being intended that the Wyoming Peace Officers Indemnity Fund shall be administered by the State Treasurer as near as may be in the same manner as the Wyoming Workmen's Compensation law is administered, and that orders of award and all other court procedure shall be entered and conducted as near as may be in accordance with the procedure provided by the Workmen's Compensation Law, and that any of the above peace officers injured in the line of his duties shall receive the same compensation which he would have received had he received the same injury while working for an employer contributing to the Industrial Accident Fund, and shall receive the indemnity in the same manner.

Payments to Fund by Counties.

Section 4. Every county of the State of Wyoming is hereby required to pay into the State Treasury for the benefit of the Wyoming Peace Officers Indemnity Fund a sum of money equal to one and one-half per cent (12%) of the moneys earned by each of its salaried sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, under sheriffs and constables during each calendar month in which they shall be employed. Such payment shall be so made on or before the fifteenth day of the month following the month for which such payments are computed and paid. The State Treasurer shall keep a separate account for each county so contributing to said fund, and shall charge against the account of each county all warrants paid from the Wyoming Peace Officers Indemnity Fund:

(a) As awards for injuries to the above named peace officers of such county;

(b) In payment of medical or hospital attendance of such peace officers of such county;

(c) In payment for the investigations of injuries of such peace officers or in payment of investigations into the manner in which such injuries were received;

(d) In payment of witness fees in cases wherein an order of award is granted to such peace officer of such county.

Each county shall continue to make said monthly contributions as above provided unless its account after making the above deductions therefrom shall be overdrawn, in which event such county shall be required to pay monthly a sum of money (including the said one and one-half per cent) equal to three per cent (3%) of the moneys earned by each of its peace officers during each calendar month of such employment until such overdraft shall be paid.

Payments to Fund by State.

Section 5. The State of Wyoming hereby pledges itself to contribute by biennial appropriations a sum of money equal to one and one-half per cent (12%) of the moneys earned by each of such peace officers in its

employ, and agrees that its account shall be kept as near as may be in the manner in which the accounts of the counties are required to be kept under the provisions of this act, and that similar charges for amounts paid out on account of or on behalf of injuries to its peace officers shall be charged against its account. The State of Wyoming further pledges itself that in the event its account is overdrawn that it shall contribute a sum of money (including the said one and one-half per cent) equal to three per cent (3%) of the moneys earned by each of its peace officers.

Appropriation.

Section 6. There is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of Twenty-five thousand Dollars ($25,000.00) to be paid to said Wyoming Peace Officers Indemnity Fund as the first contribution of the State to said Fund.

Report of Accident.

Section 7. Reports of accidents covering injuries to its peace officers shall be filed by the counties in the same manner and at the same time as such reports are required to be filed by employers contributing to the Industrial Accident Fund, and each State officer shall make similar reports to the courts of all injuries to peace officers employed in his department.

Order of Court.

Section 8. Every order given and made by the District Court or Judge awarding payment from the Wyoming Peace Officers Indemnity Fund to an injured peace officer or his dependent family shall be entered of record by the Clerk of the Court where given and true copies thereof shall be immediately made and certified by said clerk and forwarded to the State Auditor and State Treasurer respectively of Wyoming, and shall be by each of said officers entered upon a record to be known as the Indemnity Docket, and shall be the authority and direction of the State Auditor to issue warrants of indemnity awards against the Wyoming Peace Officers Indemnity Fund, and for the State Treasurer to pay such indemnity awards from such fund. Power of State Treasurer.

Section 9. The State Treasurer shall have the power by appropriate action to require each county of the State to contribute to said fund as required by this act.

Appeal by State Treasurer.

Section 10. The State Treasurer shall have the right to appeal to the Supreme Court from any final order or judgment in any District Court of the State awarding indemnity or declining to award indemnity, although he was not a party to such procedure in the District Court. The Attorney General shall act as the attorney for the State in every such appeal, and each appeal shall be conducted without expense to the Wyoming Peace Officers Indemnity Fund.

Section 11. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of April, A. D. 1923.

Approved March 3, 1923.

CHAPTER 98.

Senate File No. 43.

TRUANT OFFICERS.

AN ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2261, Wyoming Compiled Statutes 1920, relating to truant officer; providing that the County Superintendent of the schools shall act as truant officer and providing for compensation for such services.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1. That Section 2261, Wyoming Compiled Statutes 1920 is hereby amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

Duty of County Superintendent of Schools-Truancy-Salary.

Section 2261. It shall be the duty of the county superintendent of schools of each county and of any truant officer, if there be any, to see that the provisions of Section 2260, 2261 and 2262 are complied with, and when from the personal knowledge or upon reports or complaints of any resident or teacher of the county, or precinct, or district under his supervision, he believes that any child subject to the provisions of said sections is habitually tardy or absent from school, he shall immediately give written notice to the parent, guardian or custodian of such child that the attendance of such child at school is required by law, and if within five days after such notice such parent, guardian or custodian does not comply with the provisions of this act, then such officer shall make and file complaint against such parent, guardian or custodian of any such child before a justice of the peace of the proper county, or the district court, for a violation of said provisions. Provided, that only one notice shall be required as to any child in any one year. Any such parent, guardian or custodian of any such child who shall violate the provisions of said sections, and after receiving such notice as aforesaid, and shall fail to comply with the provisions thereof, shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than five dollars and not more than twenty-five dollars for any offense, to which may be added in the discretion of the court, imprisonment in the county jail of not more than ninety days for any offense after the first. Any district board of the school district in which there is located a city or town of more than twenty-five hundred inhabitants, may appoint a regular truant officer to carry out the provisions of said sections, who shall be paid out of the district treasury such sum as shall be provided in the order for his appointment, not exceeding, however, the sum of four dollars for each day of actual service. County Superintendents of Schools in addition to the salaries allowed by law for their services as county superintendent shall receive as truant officers the following annual salaries: In counties having an assessed valuation of more than five million dollars, $800.00; in counties having an assessed valuation of less than five million dollars, and more than two million dollars, $600.00; and counties having an assessed valuation of less than two million dollars, $400.00; together with their actual and necessary traveling expenses while engaged in the discharge of their official duties, the account for which expenses, before being allowed, shall be stated in separate items, accompanied by vouchers or receipts, for all items of expense.

Section 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 3, 1923.