The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-03-07
TO HORSE OWNERS.
PedIgrees Of Stations Kept for
Service Must be Registered.


There are. perhaps. $50 hundred stations
kept for service in this county. famous for
its excellent horses. Owners and agents Of
such stations will be interested In an act
passed May 10. 1898. As the horse season
IS approaching We publish the law in full.
lis entitled "An act TO prevent deception
and fraud by owners or agents who may
have control Of any stallion kept for service,
by proclaiming or publishing fraudulent or
fal-e pedigrees or records, and TO protect
such owners OF agents in the collection Of
fees for services Of such stations"
SECTION l. Be il enacted. &c, That every
owner OF agent who may have the custody
or control of any stallion, who shall charge
q fee for the services of such stallion, shall,
before advertising or offering such services
10 the public for any fee, reward or CON-
pensation, file with the clerk Of the court of
quarter sessions of the county in which such
owner or owners, agent or agents reside, or
in which such stallion shall be kept for
service a written statement giving the name,
age, pedigree and record, il known, and If
not knowo, then that the same is unknown,
the description, terms and condition upon
which such stallion will serve. Upon filing
such statement, the clerk of the court of
quarter sessions for the county snail issue a
certificate or license to the owner or owners,
agent or agents having the custody and
control of such stallion, that such a state
ment has been filed in his office. The clerk
of the court of quarter sessions to receive
one dollar for each and every certificate so
issued, and the county commissioners are
hereby authorized and required 10 furnish
registration books and blanks for such
purposes. The owners, agent or agents of
the owners of such stallion shall then post a
written or printed copy Of the statement, so
filed with such clerk of the court of quarter
sessions. in n conspicuous place in each
locality in which said stallion shall be kept
for service.
SECTION 2 Every owner or agent who
shall file, proclaim or publish false or
fraudulent pedigree or record or statement
of any kind regarding any stallion, or who
shall neglect or refuse TO comply with the
provisions dissection one of this act, shall
forfeit all fees for the services of such stall
lion. and the person or persons who may be
deceived or defrauded by such false or
fraudulent pedigree or record or statement
may sue and recover, in any court of COM
petent jurisdiction, such damages as may be
shown TO have been sustained by reason of
such false and fraudulent representation.
SECTION 8. Whenever the owner or agent
of an owner or owners of any stallion shall
have complied with the foregoing provisions
Of this ast, the amount agreed upon be-
tween 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 amount as specified for service fee
of such stallion or stations in the statement
hereinbefore required to be filed with the
clerk OF the court Of quarter sessions of said
counties, may be collected in the same man
ner as other debts are now collected.