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when payment is made to him, or his agent, for any such get, shajl deliver 

 to the payee a receipt in full for the amount so paid, and stating for what 

 paid. 



[Penalty for misrepresenting pedigree of stallion or jack.] And 

 any such keeper or owner of any stallion or jack, who misrepresents the 

 pedigree, or fails to publish a correct pedigree of his stallion or jack^ when 

 excellency of good qualities are claimed on account thereof, shall, upon 

 proof of such misrepresentation, forfeit the services in any case when 

 legally contested and proven, and shall be otherwise punished as provided 

 by law against the use of false pedigree. 



AX ACT TO FIX RESPONSIBILITY AND TO PROTECT LABOR AND THE RIGHTS 

 OF CONTRACTORS AND SUB-CONTRACTORS ON ALL PUBLIC WORKS OR 

 WORK DONE FOR COMPANIES, CORPORATIONS, CONTRACTING COM- 

 PANIES, OR INDIVIDUALS. 



(3231-1) SEC. I. [Lien upon railroad, for labor or material 

 furnished.] Any person who shall have performed common or me- 

 chanical labor upon, or furnished supplies to any railroad, turnpike, plank 

 road, canal or on any public structure being erected, or on any abutment, 

 pier, culvert or foundation for same, or for any side track, embankment, 

 excavation or any public work, protection, ballasting, delivering or plac- 

 ing ties, or track-laying, whether the labor is performed for, or the sup- 

 plies or material is furnished to any company, corporation, contractor or 

 sub-contractor, construction company or an individual, shall have a first, 

 immediate, and absolute lien on the whole of the property on which said 

 work is done, and to which said supplies have been contributed, and shall 

 hold the railroad, canal, turnpike, plank road or structure to the creation 

 or construction of which the said labor or supplies has been contributed, 

 or so much thereof as may have been in whole or in part created by said 

 labor or supplies, to the exclusion of any railroad, canal, turnpike, plank 

 road, public work or structure, as to operation, occupation or use, until the 

 claim for such labor or supplies is properly adjusted and paid in full. 



(3231-2) SEC. 2. [How lien obtained.] When it shall be 

 deemed necessary for any construction company, contractor, sub-contrac- 

 tor, mechanic, laborer, or person contributing supplies or material to se- 

 cure their claim against any railroad, canal, turnpike, plank road, public 

 work or public structure, either for work done or material furnished, they 

 shall file a sworn itemized statement, within thirty days after said work- 

 was performed or materials furnished, of the amount of work done or 

 material furnished, showing the balance due and claimed for labor or 

 material furnished, with the recorder of the county or counties within 

 which said work was done or materials furnished. And if several liens 

 be obtained by several persons on the same job, in the manner prescribed 

 by this act, they shall have no priority among themselves, but payments 

 thereon shall be made pro rata. 



(3 2 3 I -3) SEC. 3. [Bond; when injunction may issue.] Any 

 construction company, contractor, mechanic, laborer, or person contribut- 

 ing supplies or material to any work named in section one ( I ) of this 

 act, shall at the time of filing the sworn statement of account as provided 

 in section two (2) of this act, file a good and sufficient bond of indemnity 



