CHAPTER 130. Original Senate File No. 91. ASSISTANT BUDGET OFFICER. AN ACT to amend and re-enact Section 343, Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 1920, and creating the office of Assistant Budget Officer, and fixing his salary and outlining his duties. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming: Section 1. That Section 343, Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 1920, be amended and re-enacted to read as follows: Section 343. The Governor shall be the Chief Budget Officer of the State and shall appoint one assistant budget officer for a term of office not to exceed two years at a salary not to exceed four thousand dollars ($4,000.00) a year; said assistant budget officer shall as soon as appointed proceed to make a detailed study of the departments and establishments of the State, for the purpose of enabling the Governor to determine what changes, (with a view of securing greater economy and efficiency in the conduct of the public service) should be made in (1) the existing organizations, activities, and methods of business of such departments or establishments, (2) the appropriations therefor, (3) the assignment of particular activities or particular services, or (4) the regrouping of services, the results of such study shall be embodied in a report or reports to the Governor, who shall transmit to the Legislature such report or reports with his recommendations on the matters covered thereby, such Assistant Budget Officer shall perform such other duties in relation to the acquiring of information for and preparation of said Budget as shall be requested of him by the Governor and shall have authority on the request of the Governor to examine the books, records and vouchers of any and all departments and institutions of the State. The Governor may employ such further special help as he may require to carry out the provisions of this Act. The Governor shall fix the compensation of such other persons as he shall employ in this connection and cause the same, together with their necessary traveling expenses, to be paid out of the contingent fund of his office. Section 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 26, 1925. CHAPTER 131. Original Senate File No. 88. CHILD AND ANIMAL PROTECTION. AN ACT defining certain duties and powers of the Commissioner of Child and Animal Protection of the State of Wyoming and of the assistant Commissioner of Child and Animal Protection of the State of Wyoming providing for the appointment of the Commissioner of Child and Animal Protection of the State of Wyoming as Guardian of children coming into the custody of such Commissioner of Child and Animal Protection under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Wyoming, and confirming and legalizing all appointments, heretofore made, of the Commissioner of Child and Animal Protection of the State of Wyoming as guardian of said children who have come into the custody of such commissioner. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming: Appointment of Commissioner as Guardian. Section 1. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Child and Animal Protection of the State of Wyoming to make application to the proper district court in any district or county of this State for the appointment of such Commissioner of Child and Animal Protection as guardian of any and all children coming into the care and custody of such Commissioner of Child and Animal Protection. Such ap pointments shall run to the Commissioner of Child and Animal Protection of the State of Wyoming as such, and anyone appointed to and performing the duties of such Commissioner of Child and Animal Protection shall during the full period of his or her term in office be ex-officio guardian of all children of whom he or she, or his or her predecessor or predecessors in office, have been or has been appointed such guardian, and all of the rights, authority and duties of any such guardian shall also vest in and become obligatory upon the lawful incumbent of the office of Commissioner of Child and Animal Protection, and said Commissioner of Child and Animal Protection as such guardian shall have full and complete authority to consent to the adoption of any and all children of whom he or she shall be ex-officio guardian. Powers and Duties of Assistant Commissioner. Section 2. The Assistant Commissioner of Child and Animal Protection of the State of Wyoming at any time when the Commissioner of Child and Animal Protection of the State of Wyoming shall be absent from the county wherein the office of the Commissioner of Child and Animal Protection is maintained under the laws of this State, shall have authority and it shall be the duty of such Assistant Commissioner of Child and Animal Protection 'to exercise all of the power and authority conferred upon said Commissioner of Child and Animal Protection with reference to securing the appointment of said Commissioner of Child and Animal Protection as guardian of any child or children and consenting to the adoption of any child or children of whom said Commissioner of Child and Animal Protection shall be guardian. Ratification of Former Appointments. Section 3. In all cases where the Commissioner of Child and Animal Protection of the State of Wyoming heretofore has been appointed guardian of any child or children by any of the courts of this State, such appointments are hereby declared to be valid and legal and to vest in such Commissioner of Child and Animal Protection all of the rights, powers and duties conferred by this Act, including the present incumbent in said office, and in all cases where any child or children heretofore have been adopted under order of any court of this State upon the consent of the then Commissioner of Child and Animal Protection, such adoptions are hereby confirmed and hereby declared to be in all respects legal, valid and subsisting adoptions. Section 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 26, 1925. CHAPTER 132. Original Senate File No. 90. NOTICE OF CLAIMS AND ACTIONS ON BONDS ON PUBLIC CONTRACTS. AN ACT to amend and re-enact Section 332, Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 1920, with reference to Notice of Claims and Actions upon Bonds Given in Connection with Public Contracts. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming: Section 1. That Section 332, Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 1920, be amended and re-enacted to read as follows: Section 332. No action shall be maintained on any such bond unless within sixty days after the publication and posting of the notice provided for in Chapter 151, Session Laws, 1921, the claimant shall serve upon the principal and his sureties a written notice specifying the nature and the amount of his claim and the date thereof, and no action shall be maintained on any such claim unless it is begun within one year after the service of such written notice on such principal and surety. Section 2. This Act shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 26, 1925. CHAPTER 133. Original House Bill No. 154. NOTICES OF LIEN OR CLAIM IN FAVOR OF UNITED STATES. AN ACT relating to the filing of notices of lien, or claim, in favor of the United States, and of the release or discharge thereof, in the office of the county clerks of the several counties of the State of Wyoming. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming: Section 1. The County Clerk of each county is authorized to, and shall either file, or file and record, as is or may be provided by the laws of the Government of the United States, every notice, abstract, or statement of any lien or claim, or release or discharge thereof, in favor of the United States, or of any department or bureau thereof, when any such notice, abstract or statement, prepared in conformity to the laws of the United States, is presented to him for filing, or filing and recording. Section 2. The County Clerk shall number such notices, abstracts or statements, in the order in which they are filed, and if they are required to be recorded, he shall record them in a well bound book to be styled "Federal Lien Record," and in either case he shall index them alphabetically under the names of the persons named therein, or affected thereby, such index to be kept in a well bound book styled "Index to Federal Liens," and for the performance of these services no fee shall be charged, provided, however, that his failure to file, record or index properly such notice, abstract or statement, as herein required, shall not affect the validity or legality of any such lien or claim or release or discharge thereof. Section 3. That Chapter 18, Session Laws of Wyoming, 1923, and all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. Section 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 26, 1925. CHAPTER 134. Original House Bill No. 189. REPEAL OF STATUTE EXEMPTING BEET SUGAR FACTORIES FROM TAXATION. AN ACT repealing Chapter 75, Session Laws of Wyoming, 1923, relating to the exemption of beet sugar factories from taxation. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming: Section 1. That Chapter 75, Session Laws of Wyoming, 1923, is hereby repealed. Section 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 1926. Approved February 26, 1925. CHAPTER 135. Original House Bill No. 3. EXEMPTION OF CHARITABLE TRUSTS FROM TAXATION. AN ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5408, Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 1920, relating to the exemption from taxation of charitable trusts. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming: Section 1. That Section 5408, Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 1920, be amended and re-enacted to read as follows: "Section 5408. All property devised, bequeathed or given for non-sectarian, public educational purposes in this State, or for the purpose of non-sectarian, public education of the youths of this State shall be considered as charitable trusts, and the said property, so long as the same is not diverted from the purposes herein expressed, shall be exempt from taxation including inheritance taxation. Provided, however, that where by the provisions of such devise, bequest or gift, the income therefrom, after deducting proper expenses in administering the same, is directed to be expended for the purposes aforesaid, to commence only, however, from a certain period after such devise, bequest or gift is made, then the property so devised, bequeathed or given for the purpose aforesaid shall from and after and including the year A. D. 1926 be subject to annual taxation as other property until such period so specified arrives, and if the said period is extended under the provisions of such devise, bequest or gift, then until such extension period expires. Provided, further, that in other cases where instead of the income the corpus of the property is to be put to actual use for the purposes aforesaid only from a certain period specified in such devise, bequest or gift, then the same shall, in like manner, hereafter be subject to taxation as other property until such period, including any such extension period, arrives." Section 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 26, 1925. CHAPTER 136. Original House Bill No. 205. TAX LEVY FOR STATE EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. AN ACT to provide for a special levy, for the purpose of raising revenue, for the operation and maintenance, and purchase of land and equipment for Wyoming State Experimental Farms. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming: Levy of One-Tenth of Mill. Section 1. The State Board of Equalization at the time of making the annual tax levy for State purposes for the year 1925, and annually thereafter, shall direct the various boards of County Commissioners of the several counties of the State to levy upon all taxable property in their respective counties a tax of one-tenth of one mill on each and every dollar of assessed valuation of such property, which tax shall be collected and paid to the State Treasurer in the manner provided by law for the levying, collecting and payment of other State taxes. Such taxes when so collected and paid into the State Treasurer shall be kept in a separate fund for the Wyoming State Experimental Farms, to be known as the State Farm Fund, and shall be paid out only by order of the Board of Trustees of the University of Wyoming, as hereafter provided. Expenditure of Receipts from Taxation. Section 2. The proceeds of said tax shall be appropriated and expended by the Board of Trustees of the University of Wyoming for such permanent buildings and improvements, purchases of lands, for experimental purposes, for purchase of livestock for experimental tests and for operating expenses, salaries, and for such other purposes as the said Board of Trustees shall deem necessary. Said tax when paid to the State Treasurer shall not be expended or disbursed except upon sworn itemized claims, and said sworn and itemized claim shall have |