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SESSION LAWS OF WYOMING TERRITORY PASSED BY THE TENTH LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY CONVENED AT CHEYENNE, ON THE TENTH DAY OF JANUARY, 1888. [bound with:] SESSION LAWS OF WYOMING TERRITORY PASSED BY THE ... 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 o

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