ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 515.

AN ACT to add to article ten, of the Code of Public Local Laws,

title " Dorchester county," certain sections to be known as "Sec-

tions three hundred and twenty and three hundred and twenty-

two, three hundred and twenty-three and three hundred and

twenty-four."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assembly of Maryland,

That article ten, of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Dor-

To add

chester county," the following section shall be added, under the

sub-title " Stallions," and to be known as " Sections three hun-

dred and twenty-one, three hundred and twenty-two, three hun-

dred and twenty-three and three hundred and twenty-four."

321. Whenever the owner or manager of any stallion, in the

handbills posted, and in the newspaper advei tisements published

by him in Dorchester county, shall offer the services of such stal-

lion, and shall therein give notice that he will hold the mare

Lien.

served and the colt foaled, both for the service fees of said stal-

lion, then the said owner or manager shall have a lien on said

mare and colt for said fees; provided, that proceedings be begun

to recover said fees within six months after the colt has been

foaled.

322. Such service fees may be recovered, and such hen may be

enforced in an ordinary action for the same, in the circuit court

or before a justice of the peace of said county; upon beginning

his suit, the holder of such fees shall file a claim in writing, ask-

ing that he be allowed the benefit of said lien, and if upon the

trial of the case, it be found that he is entitled thereto, then judg-

Proceed

ment shall be entered for the debt, and a memorandum shall be

ings.

added that he be allowed his lien against the mare and colt, and

whenever execution is issued, the officer to whom such execution

is directed, shall be authorized and required to seize and sell said

mare and colt for the satisfaction of the judgment, debt and costs,

full and clear of all right to have the same exempted; provided,

however, that the said lien shall not operate to the prejudice of

any other lien, so far as the mare is concerned.

323. If, before the suit for the recovery of said fees, the said

share or colt has been sold, or has passed into the possession of a

third person, notice shall be served on such third person as to said

suit, and of the claims made for the allowance of said lien, if said :

In case of

third person be a resident of Dorchester county; the subsequent

sale

owner may require the officer holding an execution as aforesaid,

to levy upon and sell any other personal property that may be held
by the original owner of such mare or colt, before he sells such

mare or colt, and if said officer refuses or fails to do so after de-

mand, and said subsequent owner is willing to indemnify said