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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

such stallion will serve. Upon filing such statement, the

clerk of the Circuit Court for the county, or for the Court

of Common Pleas of Baltimore, as the case may be, shall

issue a certificate or license to the owner or owners, agent

or agents having the custody and control of such stallion,

that such a statement has been filed in his office ; the

owners, or 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, in a conspicuous place in each locality

in which said stallion shall be kept for service.

SEC. 2. Every owner or agent who shall proclaim or

False

publish a false or fraudulent pedigree or record or state-

pedigree

ment of any kind regarding any stallion, or who shall

neglect or refuse to comply with the provisions of section

one of this act shall forfeit all fees for the services of such

stallion, 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 compe-

tent jurisdiction such damages as may be shown to have

been sustained by reason of such false and fraudulent

representation.

SEC. 3. Whenever the owner or agent of an owner or

owners of any stallion shall have complied with the fore-

Lien.

going provisions of this act, the services of such stallion

shall become a lien on each mare served, together with the

foal of such mare resulting from such service for an amount

agreed upon between 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 stallions in the statement

hereinbefore required to be filed with the clerks of said

respective courts ; provided, that a notice of such lien shall

be filed within six months after such service, which lien

shall terminate at the end of one year from the date of filing

notice thereof, unless within that time an action shall

be commenced for the enforcement thereof.

SEC. 4 It is hereby made unlawful for any person or

Assumed

persons knowingly, to enter or cause to be entitled for com-

name

petition, or to compete for any purse, prize, premium, stake

or sweepstake, offered or given by any agricultural or other

society, association or person or persons in the State of

Maryland, any horse, mare or gelding, colt or filly under

an assumed name, or out of its proper class when such

prize, purse, premium, stake or sweepstake is to be decided

by a contest in trotting races.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That any person or persons

found guilty of a violation of section four of this act shall,