954 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
such animal registered, and obtaining the certificate of the state hoard 
of agriculture as hereinbefore provided, or who shall violate any of 
the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be 
punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned 
in the county jail not exceeding thirty days, or by both such fine and 
imprisonment. 
LIEN LAW FOR SERVICE FEE. 
AN ACT providing that owners or keepers of stallions shall have a lien 
upon the progeny of any such animal for the service fee thereof. 
Be it enacted by the General Assemhly of the State of Iowa: 
Section 1. The owner or keeper of a stallion kept for public services 
who has complied with sections twenty-three hundred and forty-one-a 
(2341-a), twenty-three hundred and forty-one-b (2341-b), twenty- 
three hundred and forty-one-c (2 341-c) and twenty-three hundred and 
forty-one-d (2341-d) of the Supplement to the Code, 1907, shall have 
a prior lien upon the progeny of such stallion to secure the amount due 
such owner or keeper for the service of such stallion, resulting in 
said progeny, provided, that where such owner or keeper misrepresents 
such stallion by false pedigree no lien shall be obtained. 
Sec. 2, The lien herein provided for shall remain in force for a 
period of six months from the birth of said progeny and shall not be 
enforced thereafter. 
Sec. 3. The owner or keeper of such stallion may enforce the lien 
herein provided by placing in the hands of any constable an affidavit 
containing a. description of the stallion and a description of the dam 
and the time and terms of service, and said constable shall thereupon 
take possession of said progeny and sell the same for non-payment of 
the service fee by giving the owner of said progeny ten (10) days 
written notice, which notice sha.ll contain a copy of the affidavit and a 
full description of the progeny to be sold, the time and hour when, and 
the place at which the sale will take place, and posting for the same 
length of time in three public places in the township of such owner's 
residence a copy of such notice. If payment of the service fees and 
costs are not made before the date thus fixed, the constable may sell 
at public auction to the highest bidder such progeny and the owner or 
keeper of the stallion may be a bidder at such sale. The constable 
shall apply the proceeds, first, in the payment of the costs, second, in 
the payment of the service fee. Any surplus arising from sale shall 
be returned to the owner of the progeny. 
Sec. 4. The right of the owner or keeper to foreclose, as well as 
the amount claimed to be due, may be contested by anyone interested 
in so doing, and the proceedings may be transferred to the district 
court, for which purpose an injunction may issue, if necessary. 
Approved April 8, A. D. 1909. 
