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tract or statement thereof with any officer, nor shall it be 

 necessary that the owner of such mare or foal execute any 

 contract whatever; the said lien may be foreclosed in the 

 same manner that a mortgage upon personal property is 

 foreclosed. 



"The fee for examination and enrollment of pedigree is 

 $2 and the certificate may be transferred to a new owner of 

 the horse upon payment of a further fee of fifty cents." 



VERMONT. 



"Colts foaled in this state shall be subject to a lien to 

 secure the payment of the service fee, which shall con- 

 tinue in force until the colt is eight months old, and may 

 be enforced by attachment of such colt after it is four 

 months old; said lien shall take priority of any other 

 claim subject to the following conditions: 



"The owner or manager of the stallion shall, annually, 

 file in the office of the clerk of the town where such stal- 

 lion is kept, on or before the first day of April, or within 

 thirty days after such stallion is brought into such town, a 

 declaration of an intention to claim such lien and a state- 

 ment containing the name and age of such stallion and 

 his pedigree for two generations, if known, and the terms 

 of service; a copy of which statement shall be furnished 

 the owner of each mare served, and all bills or posters ad- 

 vertising such stallion shall contain a copy of such state- 

 ment; and when the owner or manager of a stallion has 

 complied with all the requirements of this section, if the 

 owner or person in whose name a mare has been mated 

 with such stallion for breeding purpose disposes of such 

 mare by sale or otherwise before foaling time without 

 first settling with the owner or keeper for the service of 

 the stallion or within ten days after the disposal of the 

 mare, he shall be subject to all and the 'same penalties that 

 he would for disposing of a colt encumbered by a lien; 

 provided that if such mare is returned for trial to the stal- 

 lion after three weeks from the date of the last service and 

 found not to have become pregnant and is not again served 

 during that breeding season, the provisions of this section 

 shall not apply to the disposal of such mare. 



"If the owner or manager shall, in such statement make 

 a false representation regarding the pedigree of such horse, 

 the lien for such service shall be discharged and the service 

 fee thereby secured shall be forfeited. 



"A person who owns, keeps or uses a stallion of two 

 years of age or over for breeding purposes in this state, 

 except for his own mares, shall cause such stallion to be 



