Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1908-04-25
BREEDING OF HORSES.
CHAPTER 46.

AN ACT to repeal and re enact with
amendments Sections III, 17S, l79
and $50 of Article q of the Code
of Public General Laws of Mary
land of 1904, title, Grimes and
Punishments,' subtitle, Fraud
StaIlions-By owners Or Agents
Thereof"
Section BE 1t enacted by the
General Assembly of Maryland That
the Code of Public General Laws of
Maryland Q9O4) Article 27, Sections
III, IFS, l79 and 1870, title, Grimes
and Punishments,' subtitle, Fraud
Stallions-By owners or Agent of,
be and the same hereby are repealed
and re-enacted so as to read as fol
lows:
Sec. l77-Every owner or agent
who may have the custody or control
of any stallion or jackass, who shall
charge fee for the services of such
stallion or jackass, shall before ad-
vertiSing or Offering such service to
the public for any fee, reward or com
penSation, file with the Clerk of the
Circuit Court for the county in which
such owner or owners, agent or
agents, reside, or in which such stall
lion or jackass shall be kept tor ser
vice, or if such service shall be
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with the Clerk of the Court OF Com
mon Pleas, a written statement giving
the name, age, pedigree and record, II
known, and if not known, then that
the same is unknown, the description,
terms and conditions upon which such
stallion or jaCkaSS Will serve. upon
filing 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 GER
titcate or license to the owner or
owners, agent or agents having lne
custody and control of such stallion or
jackaSS, that such statement mas
been filed in his office; the owners,
or agent or agents of the owners OF
such stallion or jackass shall then
pos. a written or printed copy of the
statement SO filed with such Clerk, in
a conspicuous place in each locality
in which said stallion or jackass shall
be kept for service.
Sec. 17S-Every owner or agent
who shall proclaim or publish false
or fraudulent pedigree or record or
statement of any kind regarding any
stallion or jackass, or who snail neg
lect or refuse to comply with the pro,
visions of Section III shall forfeit all
fees for the service of such stallion
or jackass. And the person or per
sons who may be deceived or detraud'
ed by such false or fraudulent pedi
gree or record or statement, may sue
for the recovery in any court of com
petent jurisdiction, such damage as
may be shown to have been sustained
by reason of such false and fraudulent
representation.
Sec. 179-Wherever the owner OF
agent or any owner or owners of any
stallion or jackass shall have com
piled with the foregoing provisions OF
this subtitle, the services of such star
lion or jackass shall become lien
on such mare served together with
the foal resulting from said service
for the amount agreed upon between
the owner of the mare and the owner
of the stallion or jackass at the time
of the service, or in the event of nc
such agreement, then in such al
amount as is specified for the service
of such stallion or jackass in the
statement hereinbefore required to bt
filed with the clerks Of courts OF tbs