82 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 46.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections
177, 178, 179 and 180 of Article 27 of the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland of 1904, title "Crimes and Pun-
ishments, " sub-title "Fraud—Stallions— by owners or agents
of. "

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland
(1904), Article 27, Sections 177, 178, 179 and 180, title "Crimes
and Punishments, " sub-title "Fraud—Stallions— by owners or
agents of, " be and the same hereby are repealed and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

SEC. 177. Every owner or agent who may have the custody
or control of any stallion or jackass, who shall charge a fee for
the services of such stallion or jackass, shall before advertising
or offering such service to the public for any fee, reward or
compensation, 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 stallion or jackass shall be kept for service,
or if such service shall be offered in the city of Baltimore, then
with the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, a written state-
ment giving the name, age, pedigree and record, if 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 Bal-
timore, 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 or jackass, that such a statement has
been filed in his office; the owners, or agent or agents, of the
owners of such stallion or jackass 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 or
jackass shall be kept for service.

SEC. 178. Every owner or. agent who shall proclaim or pub-
lish a false or fraudulent pedigree or record, or statement of
any kind regarding any stallion or jackass, or who shall neglect
or refuse to comply with the provisions of Section 177 shall
forfeit all fees for the services of such stallion or jackass. And
the person or persons who may be deceived or defrauded by
such false or fraudulent pedigree, or record or statement, may
sue for and recover in any court of competent jurisdiction,
such damage as may be shown to have been sustained by reason
of such false and fraudulent representation.