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3182. Persons selling cattle, horses, mules, jacks, or Regulations 

 pennies, must counterbrand them on the shoulders, or give a SSmS 1 * 

 written descriptive bill of sale. 



3183. Any person who uses any mark, brand, or counter- Penalty for 

 brand other than the one recorded by him, except by the coSmark. 

 consent of the owner of such other mark, brand, or counter- 

 brand, or uses more than one mark, brand, or counterbrand 

 otherwise than is provided in article one, or suffers his ward, 

 child, apprentice, or servant to use any other than his own 

 mark, brand, or counterbrand on those of the stock they run 

 with, forfeits to any person suing therefor the stock so marked 

 or branded with any other than the proper mark or brand 

 recorded by him. This section does not extend to any stock 

 which may descend to any ward, child, apprentice, or servant 

 by the gift or devise of any person other than the guardian, 

 parent, or master of such ward, child, apprentice, or servant; 

 but the marks, brands, and counterbrands of such minors, 

 apprentices, or servants must be recorded as other marks, 

 brands, and counterbrands. 



3184. If any person has knowledge of any person, who, Fraudulently 

 with the intent to defraud or willingly [willfully] mismarks 

 or misbrands any stock not his own, or kills any stock running 

 at large having a proper owner, the person having such knowl- 

 edge must, within ten days thereafter, give information 

 thereof to some justice of the peace of the proper county. 



PERPETUATION OF MARKS AND BRANDS. 



An act to perpetuate marks, brands and counterbrands estab- 

 lished in the several counties of the state under sections 

 three thousand one hundred sixty-eight and three thousand 

 one hundred sixty-nine of the Political Code, to provide 

 methods of perpetuation and declaring all marks, brands 

 and counterbrands not so perpetuated to be inoperative 

 and void. 



(Approved April 16, 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 138.) 



SECTION 1. The county recorder of each county in whose 

 office there are recorded more than one hundred marks, brands 

 and counterbrands under the provisions of section three thou- 

 sand one hundred sixty-eight of the Political Code, shall, brands, 

 within thirty days after this law goes into effect, cause to be 

 published in a newspaper of general circulation in such county, 

 the following notice: 



"Every person, who, under and by virtue of compliance 

 with section three thousand one hundred sixty-eight of the 

 Political Code, owns a mark, brand or counterbrand, must, 

 within three months after final publication of this notice, notify 

 the county recorder of his desire to continue and perpetuate 

 such mark, brand and counterbrand. This notification must be 



