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herein shall apply to persons convicted and sentenced for crimes or mis-
demeanors committed prior to the first day of June in the year 1912.

STALLION.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 11, sec. 431. 1918 Code, sec. 706.

726. It shall be lawful for the owner of any stallion in Frederick
county, to contract, in writing, with the owner of any mare who may de-
sire such mare to be served by such stallion, that the owner of such
stallion shall have a lien for the service money upon the progeny of such
stallion by such mare; and if the owner of such stallion shall cause such
contract to be recorded in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court for
Frederick County, within six months after such service, such owner of
such stallion shall have a lien upon such progeny for one year from the
date of foaling; provided, however, that the provisions of this subtitle
of this article shall not be construed to extend beyond the limits of Fred-
erick county.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 11, sec. 432. 1918 Code, sec. 707.

727. If said service money shall not be paid, it shall be lawful for the
owner of said stallion, after the correctness of his claim is sworn to be-
fore some one justice of the peace of the State, and upon producing a
certified copy of said contract, to obtain an order from any justice of the
peace of Frederick county to seize the progeny of said stallion, and after
giving at least two weeks' notice of the time, place and manner of sale, in
some one or more of the leading weekly newspapers published in Fred-
erick county, he shall sell the same at public sale, for cash, at some public
place in said county.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 11, sec. 433. 1918 Code, sec. 708.

728. After the expenses attending such sale and the amount of the
lien upon said progeny has been satisfied, the balance, if any, shall be
paid the original owner of such property sold.

STATE'S ATTORNEY.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 11, sec. 434. 1918 Code. sec. 709.

729. In all cases removed from any circuit court to the Circuit Court
for Frederick county, and tried, the County Commissioners for said
county may allow to the State's Attorney for said county, in addition to
the sum allowed by law, such compensation, not exceeding the sum of
thirty dollars for any one case, as they may deem just and proper, to be
levied by the County Commissioners of the county from which the cause
was removed, at their next annual levy.

1916, ch. 294, sec. 1. 1918 Code, sec. 710. 1920, ch. 440, sec. 1.

730. The State's Attorney for Frederick County, beginning January
first, A. D. 1920, shall receive as compensation for the discharge of his