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Cover Page & PrefaceREORGANIZATION OF TOWN OF CITY OF BUFFALO
Resolution Abandoning Charter – OrganizationWHEREAS, The City of Buffalo, in the County of Johnson, State of Wyoming, a municipal corporation, was heretofore organized and is now existing by virtue of a special charter heretofore granted to said City of Buffalo by the Legislature of the State (then Territory) of Wyoming; and
WHEREAS, the said City of Buffalo
desires to abandon such special charter and reorganize under the
general laws
of the State of Wyoming, as provided by Article 13, Section 1 of the
Constitution of said State, and by an Act of the Twelfth State
Legislature of
the State of Wyoming, approved February 20, 1913, entitled
“An Act authorizing
certain cities and towns organized under a separate charter from the
Legislature to surrender their charter and organize under the
provisions of the
General Laws relative to the incorporation of towns, and prescribing
the method
for so doing,” and
WHEREAS, it has been shown by the
last general United States census, taken
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the year 1910, that the said City of Buffalo has a resident population
of not less than one thousand nor more than thirty-five hundred,
to-wit, a
population of one thousand three hundred sixty-eight (1,368) as more
fully
appears by the certificate of E. Dana Durand, Director of the Census,
which
said certificate is in words and figures following:
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR
BUREAU OF THE CENSUS
WASHINGTON
February 19, 1913,
I hereby certify, that according to
the official count of the returns of the Thirteenth Census of the
United States, on file in the Bureau of the
Census, the population of Buffalo Town, Johnson County, Wyoming, is
one thousand three hundred sixty-eight (1,368).
E.
DANA DURAND,
Director of the Census.
WHEREAS, said City of Buffalo is entitled to be organized and to exist
under the
general laws of the State of Wyoming, relating to the incorporation of
towns, now therefore, For the purpose of effecting the abandonment of
the special charter of said City of Buffalo, and for the purpose of
effecting the reorganization thereof as above and heretofore stated and
recited,
BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of
Trustees of the City of Buffalo, that the special charter granted to
the City
of Buffalo, Wyoming, by the Legislature of the Territory, now State of
Wyoming,
be and the same is abandoned, and that said City of Buffalo be and the
same
hereby is organized under the general laws of the State of Wyoming
relative to
the incorporation of towns, with all of the powers, privileges and
rights
granted to such towns under the laws of the State of Wyoming, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that no
right of property accrued to the municipality or to any person shall be
affected by such abandonment and reorganization, and all ordinances of
the City
of Buffalo now in force, and not repugnant to the provisions of the
general
laws of the State of Wyoming shall remain and continue in force until
amended
or repealed by the Mayor and council. (Resolution app. February 24,
1913.)
Proclamation of Governor.
WHEREAS, The City of Buffalo, Johnson
County, Wyoming, a municipal corporation heretofore organized and
existing
under and by virtue of a special charter granted to said City of
Buffalo by the
Legislature of the State, then Territory, of Wyoming, and
WHEREAS, as shown by the last general
United State census, said City of Buffalo has a resident population of
not less
than one thousand nor more than thirty-five hundred, to-wit:
A population of one thousand three hundred
sixty-eight, and
WHEREAS, said City of Buffalo did by
resolution passed by the Board of Trustees and approved by the Acting
Mayor on
February 24, 1913, abandon said charter and organize under the general
laws of
the State of Wyoming, relative to the incorporation of towns as
provided by an
Act of the Twelfth State Legislature approved February 20, 1913,
entitled, “An
Act authorizing certain cities and towns organized under a separate
charter
from the Legislature to surrender their charter and organize under the
provisions of the general laws relative to the incorporation of towns,
and
prescribing the method for so doing,” and
WHEREAS, said resolutions and the
approval thereof have been duly certified to the undersigned governor
of the
State of Wyoming, under the seal of said City
of Buffalo,
Now, Therefore, I, Joseph M. Carey,
Governor of the State of Wyoming, do hereby
proclaim and declare that the said City of Buffalo, Johnson County,
Wyoming, a municipal corporation, is duly organized under the
provisions of the general laws of the State of Wyoming relative to the
incorporation of towns, with all the powers and obligations pertaining
thereto.
Given under my hand and the great
seal of the State, at the Capitol, in Cheyenne,
this 4th day of March A.D. 1913.
(Seal)
JOSEPH M.
CAREY
Governor
By the
Governor:
FRANK L. HOUX
Secretary of State
By T.H.
WESCOTT, Deputy
(RECORDED
office of County Clerk, Johnson Co., Wyo.,
Book K. Misc. Rec. Pg.
366)