of the sale or donation to the State of Wyoming of such suitable site or sites for said Girls' Industrial Institute; Provided, said institution shall be located on land suitable for agricultural purposes.

Section 10. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 13, 1923.

CHAPTER 17.

Senate File No. 17.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY RECEIVER.

AN ACT providing for the giving of a notice to creditors and claimants by a receiver requiring such creditors and claimants to exhibit their claims to such receiver and providing for the rendition and entry of a decree of notice to such creditors and claimants by the district court having jurisdiction of a receivership.

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

Publication of Notice.

Section 1. Within thirty days after a receiver has been appointed and qualified as provided in Section 6186, Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 1920, if the court shall so order, such receiver shall publish in some newspaper of the county in which he has been appointed, and if there be no newspaper therein, then in such newspaper as may be designated by the judge or court, for three weeks a notice that he has been appointed as such receiver, stating the date of such appointment and requiring all persons having claims against the person, company, corporation or partnership for which such receiver has been appointed to exhibit such claims for allowance to such receiver within four months from the date of the first publication of such notice, and if such claims be not exhibited within four months from the date of the first publication of such notice, they shall be forever barred from participation in the assets of the receivership.

Proof of Publication Procedure when Claimant out of State.

Section 2. After the notice is given as required by the preceding Sections, a copy thereof with the affidavit of due publication thereof must be filed in the office of the Clerk of Court and the judge or court shall thereafter make and enter a decree that notice to creditors has been duly given and that all claims not theretofore exhibited as provided in the foregoing section are barred, provided, however, that when it is made to appear by the affidavit of a claimant to the satisfaction of the court or judge that a claimant had no notice as provided in the foregoing section by reason of being out of the state, such claim may upon order of the court or judge be presented at any time before a decree of final settlement of said receivership is entered, provided further, that in all cases of receivership now pending notice to creditors shall be given as provided herein, and the decree provided for herein may be rendered as provided herein.

Section 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after June 1st, 1923.

Approved February 15, 1923.

CHAPTER 18.

Senate File No. 5.

NOTICE OF LIENS FOR TAXES DUE UNITED STATES.

AN ACT to permit and authorize the filing of notices of liens for taxes in favor of the United States of America.

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

Section 1. Upon payment of the usual fees any notice of lien for any tax in favor of the United States of America may be filed and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds or County Clerk in any County within this State where any person owing such tax is the owner of property which may be subjected to such lien.

Section 2. The Register of Deeds or County Clerk in the several Counties of the State are required to receive for filing and recording any such notice of lien in favor of the United States of America.

Section 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 15, 1923.

CHAPTER 19.

House Bill No. 115.

FISCAL YEAR AND ELECTION OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

AN ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2238, 2234, 2851, 2294, 2295, 2396, and 2398, Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 1920, changing the date of the close of the fiscal year for school districts and the date of the regular annual district meeting or election and of annual high school district election.

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

Section 1. That Section 2238 Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 1920. shall be amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

Close of Year-Annual Meeting.

Section 2238. The fiscal school year shall end on the third Saturday of June and the annual school meeting or election of each school district shall be held on the first Monday thereafter in each year. And, when present, the director and clerk shall preside as chairman and secretary, respectively, of such meeting.

Section 2. That Section 2234, Wyoming Compiled Statutes 1920, hereby amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

Election of Trustees.

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Section 2234. Except as otherwise provided by law, there shall be elected in each organized school district at the regular annual district meeting or election on the first Monday following the third Saturday in June, of each year, one trustee, who shall hold his office for three years and until his successor is duly elected and qualified. If, for any cause, the annual election should not be held at the regular annual meeting or election a special meeting

may be held for that purpose if so specified in the notice for said special meeting. The trustees together shall constitute a board of directors for the district, and shall, immediately after they are qualified, elect one of their number a director, treasurer and clerk of the district. At the first regular annual election after a school district is organized there shall be three trustees elected, one to hold his office for the term of three years, and one to hold his office for the term of two years, and one for the term of one year and until their successors are elected and qualified, and thereafter at each annual meeting or election there shall be one trustee elected as aforesaid, for the term of three years, as successor to the outgoing member of the board, and all of said trustees herein mentioned shall possess the qualifications of any elector in said district, and shall be elected by ballot, and the name of each elector voting for trustee shall be recorded by the secretary of the meeting, and such record shall be filed with the district clerk.

Section 3. Section 2851 Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 1920, is hereby amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

Assessment-When Made.

Section 2851. Whenever a sum of money has been voted by a school district, as by law provided, the clerk shall, under the supervision of the directors, make out and certify over his official signature, the amount of money voted in his district, and on or before the third Monday in July of each year cause the same to be filed in the office of the clerk of the board of county commissioners; the clerk shall also at the same time notify the county assessor of the county in which said school district is situated in writing, of the action of the district. The deputy assessor shall at the time of making the annual assessment of his district, also assess the property of each school district, and return to the county assessor at the time of returning the assessment schedules, separate schedules listing the property of each school district by him assessed. Said separate schedule shall be by the county assessor, compiled, footed and returned to the board of county commissioners as hereinbefore provided for other assessment schedules.

Section 4. Section 2295 Wyoming Compiled Statutes 1920 are hereby amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

Annual Report by Clerk of District.

Section 2295. The district clerk shall immediately after the annual school meeting or election and not later than the first day of July in each year, submit a report to the county superintendent for the past year ending the third Saturday in June next preceding.

1. Of the number of schools taught in such district, the number of days each scholar attended the same, and the aggregate number of days of attendance of said school respectively, as certified by the teachers of the several schools of such district.

2. The number of schools and the branches taught in each.
3. The number of pupils in each school, and of each sex.

4. The number of teachers employed in each school and the average

compensation of each per month.

5. The number of days the school has been taught, and by whom.

6. The average cost of tuition for a pupil, per month, in each school.

7.

Books used in each school.

8. The number of volumes in the library of each school.

9. The aggregate amount paid teachers during the year, the source from which the same was received, and the amount of teachers' fund in the hands of the treasurer.

10.

The number of district school houses and the cost of each.

11. The amount raised in the district by tax for the erection of school houses, and for other purposes authorized by law, and such other information as he may deem useful.

Section 5. Section 2396 Wyoming Compiled Statutes 1920 is hereby amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

Creation of High School District-Appointment of Trustees.

Section 2396. When the returns of such election shall have been received by the county clerk, the board of county commissioners shall proceed without delay to canvass the same, and determine and declare the result of such election, and enter the same upon their minutes. Such "high school district" shall be created, and said board of county commissioners shall declare the same to be composed of all precincts wherein a majority. vote has been cast in favor of said proposition. The board of county commissioners shall give notice of the result of the election, naming the territory embraced in such created high school district, as shown by the election and as provided in this section, and thereupon such territory shall at once be created and constitute such high school district. The board of county commissioners shall thereafter, by order duly entered, promptly proceed to appoint six persons possessing qualifications of electors within the described territory and taxpayers thereof, who shall, with the county superintendent as ex-officio member thereof, constitute a board of trustees of said high school district. Each of such trustees so appointed shall hold office until the first Monday following the third Saturday in June next following his appointment, and until his successor is elected and qualified and shall within ten days of his appointment qualify by taking the oath required of county officers, and giving bond as may be required by the county commissioners for the faithful discharge of his duties, whereupon said high school district shall become fully organized.

Section 6. Section 2398 Wyoming Compiled Statutes 1920 is hereby amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

Trustees of High School Districts Election Terms.

Section 2398. There shall be elected in each high school district at the regular annual school election on the first Monday following the third Saturday in June of each year, in the same manner as provided by law for the election of trustees for school districts, except as provided in the preceding section, three trustees for such high school district, who shall hold office for a term of two years and until their successors are elected and qualified. On the next succeeding first Monday following the third Saturday in June after the establishment of a high school district, there shall be elected in said district six trustees, who shall be divided into two classes of three each. The term of those in the first class shall expire one year from the first Monday following the third Saturday in June following their election, and the term of those in the second class shall expire two years from the first Monday following the third Saturday in June following their election. When a vacancy occurs in the office of trustees in said district by death, resignation, removal from the district or otherwise, the fact of said vacancy shall be immediately certified by the secretary, and such vacancy shall be filled by appointment by said board of trustees, until the next annual election, at which time such vacancy shall be filled by election.

Section 7. That Section 2294, Wyoming Compiled Statutes 1920, be amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

Notice of District Meetings.

Section 2294. The District Clerk shall give ten days previous notice

of all regular and special meetings of the district, herein authorized, by posting up a written notice in three different public places therein.

Section 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 15, 1923.

CHAPTER 20.

House Bill No. 60.

INJURIOUS RODENTS AND MAGPIES.

AN ACT declaring Injurious Rodents and Magpies to be a nuisance; and providing for the control and extermination of injurious rodents and magpies, authorizing counties to create a fund for that purpose, and repealing Chapter 88 of the Session Laws of Wyoming for 1921.

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

Presence of Injurious Rodents and Magpies a Nuisance.

Section 1. That the presence of injurious rodents and magpies upon the lands in Wyoming is hereby declared to be a nuisance, on and after March 1st, 1923, and the owner or owners of lands whereon such nuisances thereafter shall infest or occupy is hereby declared to be a maintainer of such nuisance after March 1, 1923.

Duty of Land Owner.

Section 2. It shall be, and is hereby declared to be the imperative duty of every person, firm, co-partnership, company or corporation owning any land, place, building or other tract which is infested by injurious rodents. and magpies between March 1st, and May 1st of each and every year hereafter, or as soon as the presence of the same shall come to the knowledge of the owner or owners at once to proceed and to continue in good faith to exterminate and destroy such injurious rodents and magpies by poisoning, or any other effective means.

Formation of Control District.

Section 3. The Board of County Commissioners of any County in this State is authorized, and upon receipt of a petition, as provided in Section Four of this act, requesting that a rodent and magpie control district, as hereinafter described, be formed, it shall be their duty to appropriate money from the general fund of such County for the purpose of destroying injurious rodents and magpies. The money so appropriated shall be used to purchase and provide poison supplies, hire labor and provide any other means necessary for the eradication of such pests.

Petition Signers.

Section 4. The petition for a pest district shall define the lands to be included in said district, specify the pest to be brought under control or eradicated and must be signed by a majority of the resident land owners owning at least 35% of the deeded land within the bounds of the proposed district.

Duty of County Commissioners.

Section 5. The Board of County Commissioners of any County engaged in the destruction of injurious rodents and magpies under the