The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-05-13
Approved by the Goverae efII April = 49, is 3


CHAPTER 4ie.
IN ACT TO PREVENT DECEPTION AND
fraud by owners or agents who may have control
of any stallion Kept for service, by proclalmlng
records and to protect such owners or agents in
the collection of fees for services OF such stat
horses out Of their classes.
SEcTIoN j. Be i enacted by the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, That every owner or agent who
may have the custody or control of any stallion,
who shall charge fee for the service OF such
service to the public for any fec reward or com
pensation, file vito 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
offered in The City Of Baltimore then with the
statement giving the name, age, pedigree and
record II known and If not kn9wn' then tnat tne
ditions upon which such stallion will serve. Upon
fling such statement the clerk OF the Circuit Court
for the county. or of the Court OF Common Pleas
Of Baltimore. as the case may be, shall issue q
certificate or license to the owner or owners agent
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
the owners of such stations shall then post
written printed copy of the statement so filed
with such clerk in conspicuous place in each
locality in which said stallion shall be kept FOR
SEC 2. Every owner or agent who shall pro-
claim publish false or fraudent pedigree or
record or statement of any kind regarding any
stallion. 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
Qe1fauQeu Dy SQCn 1alSe or fraudulent peQlBfce OF
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
such false and fraudulent representation.
SEC. 8. Whenever the owner or agent OF an
owner or owners of any stallion shall have COM
piled with the foregoing provisions of this act the
services of such stallion shall become lien on
marc resulting from such service for an amount
agreed upon between the parties at the time of
service, or in the event OF no such agreement
having been entered into between them then in
such an am cunt as 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 filing 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-
son or persons, knowingly, to enter or cause to-6e
entered for competition, or to compete for any
purse prize. premium, stake or sweepstake offered
given by any agricultural or other society, as
ISOLATION or person or persons in the State of
under an assumed name or out of It's proper class
when such prize purse, premium stake or sweep
stake is to be decided by contest in trotting races
SEC o.. And be 1t enacted, That any person or
persons found guilty of a violation of Section four
of this act SHALL upon conviction thereof, be i'm
prsoned in the Penitentiary for not less than one
the jail of the county the City of Baltimore.
the case may be, in which the offense was COM
u.itted, for any definite period not less than six
months, and shall be fined in any sum not exceed
ing one Thousand dollars.
SEC 2. And be it enacted That this act shall take
effect from tine date of its passage.
rect co1v ~ sn sct Of the eeners asssmblv If
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.