116 STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



MISCELLANEOUS, 



FRAUDULENT REGISTRATION OF LIVE STOCK. 

 Penal Code. 



537a. Every person who by any false or fraudulent 

 pretense obtains from any club, association, society, or com- 

 pany, organized for the purpose of improving the breed of 

 cattle, horses, sheep, swine, or other domestic animals, a 

 certificate of registration of any animal in the herd register, 

 or any other register of any such club, association, society, or 

 company, or a transfer of any such registration, and any 

 person who, for a valuable consideration, gives a false pedigree 

 of any animal, w r ith intent to mislead, is guilty of a misde- 

 meanor. (As amended, Stats. 1905, p. 685.) 



RECORD OF LIVE STOCK SALES AT AUCTION. 

 Political Code. 



3505. Every auctioneer who sells any animal of the horse 

 kind, or any mules, must keep a book, in which he must 

 register the name of each and every person bringing or offer- 

 ing any horse or mule to be sold, and the name of the person 

 purchasing such horse or mule, together with the date of such 

 sale, and a description of each horse, or mule sold, together 

 with the marks and brands. The book is a public record, 

 subject to the inspection of any person desiring to inspect the 

 same. 



LIEN FOR CARE OF LIVE STOCK. 

 Civil Code. 



3051. Every person who, while lawfully in possession of 

 an article of personal property renders any service to the 

 owner thereof, by labor or skill, employed for the protection, 

 improvement, safekeeping, or carriage thereof, has a special 

 lien thereon, dependent on possession, for the compensation, if 

 any, which is due to him from the owner for such service; a 

 person who makes, alters, or repairs any article of personal 

 property, at the request of the owner, or legal possessor of 

 the property, has a lien on the same for his reasonable charges 

 for the balance due for such work done and materials fur- 

 nished, and may retain possession of the same until the charges 

 are paid; and livery or boarding or feed stable proprietors, 

 and persons pasturing horses or stock, have a lien, dependent 

 on possession, for their compensation in caring for, boarding, 

 feeding, or pasturing such horses or stock; * * * and 

 veterinary proprietors and veterinary surgeons shall have a 

 lien, dependent on possession, for their compensation in caring 

 for, boarding, feeding, and medical treatment of animals; 

 * * *. (As amended, Stats. 1911, p. 887.) 



