Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-05-05
Stallion and Jack Registration Law

jacks, providing for the fees
therefor and fixing the penalties
for a violation of the provisions
hereof. Chapter SO, Laws Of
Washington, 1911.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of
the State of Washington:
Section /. Every person, firm or
company, owning any draft stallion,
or jack, for sale, exchange or for
public service in this state shall
cause the name, description and
pedigree of such stallion or jack to
be enrolled by the department of
animal husbandry of the State Col
Ilege of Washington, and procure a
certificate of such enrolment from
said department, which shall there
upon be presented to and recorded by
the auditor of the county in which
said stallion or jack is used for pub
lie service.
In order to obtain the license GER
tificate herein provided for, the
owner of each stallion or jack shall
file a certificate of soundness, signed
by veterinarian registered to prac-
tice in the state of Washington and
shall forward the veterinarian GER
tificate, together with the stud book
certificate of registry of the pedigree
of the said stallion or jack, and other
necessary papers relating to his
breeding and ownership to the de-
Ipartment of animal husbandry of the
said college.
The presence of any one of the fol-
lowing named diseases shall disqual-
ify stallion or jack for public ser
vice:
Bone SPAWN, ringbone, sidebone,
.nayicular disease.
Bog spawn, curb with CURLY for
nation of hook.
Chambers, farcy, maladie due colt;
urethal gleet; mango; melanosis;
and the department of animal hus-
bandry is hereby authorized to re-
fuse it's certificate of enrolment to
any stallion or jack affected with any
one of the diseases hereby specified
i and to revoke the previously issued
enrollment certificate of any stallion
or jack found on investigation of the
! department to be so infected
Section 2. The professor of ami
NAL husbandry of the said college
whose duty it shall be to examine and
pass upon the merits of each pedi-
gree submitted, shall use as his
standard for action the stud books
and signatures of the duly author
! lied officers of the various horse or
jack pedigree registry associations,
societies, or companies recognized by
the department of agriculture, Wash
ington, D. c., and shall accept as
purebred and entitled to a license
certificate as such, each stallion or
| jack for which a pedigree registry
certificate is furnished bearing the
signature of the duly authorized Of
ficers of a government recognized
and approved stud book
Section 8. The owner of any stall
lion or jack used for public service in
this state shall post and keep affixed,
during the entire breeding season,
copies of the license certificate of
such stallion or jack, issued under
the provisions of the next succeeding
section, in conspicuous place both
within and upon the outside of every
stable or building where the said
stallion or jack is used for public
service at his home or elsewhere.
Section 4. Subdivision /. The
license certificate issued for a stall
lion or jack whose sire and dam are
of pure breeding and the pedigree of
which is registered in a stud book
recognized by the government de-
partment of agriculture shall be in
the following form:
The State College of Washington, De-
partment of Animal Husbandry.
Certificate of Purebred Stallion or
Jack No.....
The pedigree of the stallion or
jack (name) ...............
owned Dy ,........ ............
Described as follows:
| CColor) ...... (Breed) .....
Foaled in the year ....., has been
examined at the State College, and
it is hereby certified that the said
stallion or jack is of pure breeding
and is registered in a stud book rec
ognized by the departm ent of agri-
culture, Washington, d. c.
Professor of Animal Husbandry.
Subdivision .. The license certi-
ficate issued for a stallion or jack
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