The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-05-20

A CHAPTER 4l9.
AN ACT TO PREVENT DECEPTION AND
fraud by owners agents who may have control
of any stallion kept for service, by proclaiminR
records, and to protect such owners or agents in
the collection of fees for services of such stal-
horses out of their classes
SECTION !. Be Il enacted by the General Assem-
may have the custody or. control of any stallion.
who shall charge fee for the service or such
service to the public for any fee, reward or com
pensation, file with the clerk of the Circuit Court
agent or agents reside or In which such stallion
shall be kept for service if such service shall be
See Of the ee o OF Of P
statement giving the e name, age pedigree. ana tse
same is unknown, the description, terms and con-
ditions upon which such stallion Will serve. Upon
filing such statement the clerk Of the Circuit Court
of Baltimore, as the case may be- shall issue a
certificate license to the owner or owners agent
or agents having the custody or control of such
stallion. that such statement has been filed in his
office; the owner or owners, or agent or agents of
written or printed copy of the statement so filed
with such clerk in a conspicuous place in each
locality In which said stallion shall be kept for
service.
SEC. 2. Every owner or agent who shall pro-
claim or publish false or fraudent pedigree or
record or statement. of any kind regarding any
stallion, or who shall neglect or refuse to comply
forfeit all fees for the services of such stallion,
and the person or persons who may be deceived or
record or statement may sue and recover in any
court of competent Jurisdiction such damages as
may be shown to have been sustained by reason of
SIC. 8. Whenever the owner or agent Of an
owner owners Of any stallion shall have COM
piled with the foregoing provisions of this act the
services or such stallion shall become lien on
each mare served, together with the foal of such
mare resulting from such service for an amount
agreed upon between the parties at the time of
HAVING been entered into between them then in
such amt cunt specified for service fee of such
stallion stations in the statement hereinbefore
i've courts; provided that notice of such lien shall
be filed within six months after such service,
which lien shall terminate at the end of one year
from the date of fling notice thereof, unless
within that time an action shall be commenced for
the enforcement thereof.
SEC. 4. 1t is hereby made unlawful for any per-
entered for competition, or to compete for any
purse, prize premium, stake or sweepstake offered
or given by any agricultural or other society, as
soc1ation or person or persons In the State OF
Maryland, any horse. mare gelding, colt FLY,
under an assumed name or out of Its proper class
when such prize. purse, premium, stake or sweep
SEC. s. And be it enacted, That any person or
persons found guilty of violation of Section four
of this act shall, upon conviction thereof, be i'm
prisoned in the Penitentiary for not less than one
year nor more than three years, or imprisoned in
the jail of the county or the City of Baltimore as
the case may be, In which the offense was COM
months, and shall be fined in any sum not exceed
ing one thousand dollars.
SEC q And be 1t enacted. That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing is cor
rect copy of an act of the General Assembly of
Maryland, passed January session, 1892
Chief Clerk of the House Of Delegates.
W. G. PURNELL.
Secretary of the Senate.
Approved by the Governor, April z. 1892.