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<of entry for competition in any contest of speed, shall not be changed 

 after once having contested for a prize, purse, premium, stake or sweep- 

 . stakes, except as provided by the code of printed rules of the society 

 or association under which the contest is advertised to be conducted. 



(4221-10) SEC. 4. [Class determined by performance.] The 



'class to which a horse belongs for the purpose of an entry in any jmch 

 contest of speed shall be determined by the public performance of said 

 horse in said former contest or trial of speed, as provided by the printed 

 rules of the society or association under which the proposed contest is 

 advertised to be conducted. 



(4221-11) SEC. 5. [Cheating by false pretense.] Whoever, for 

 the purpose of competing for purses or premiums, knowingly and de- 

 signedly enters or drives any horse, gelding, mare, colt or filly that shall 

 have been painted or disguised, or represents any other or different 

 horse, gelding, mare, colt or filly from the one which is purported to 

 be entered, or shall, knowingly and designedly, for the purpose of com- 

 peting for purses or premiums, enter or drive a horse, gelding, mare, 

 colt or filly in a class to which it does not properly belong, shall be 

 deemed guilty of cheating by false pretense and shall be punished by 

 fine and imprisonment as provided in Section 2 (4221-8) of this act. 



(4221-12) SEC. 6. [Penalty.] Any person or persons know- 

 ingly misrepresenting or fraudently concealing the public performance 

 in any former contest or trial of speed, [of] any horse, gelding, mare, 

 colt or filly which he or they propose to enter for a competition in any 

 -such contest, shall, upon conviction thereof, be liable to the same punish- 

 ment as is provided in Section 2 (4221-8) of this act, whether he or 

 they shall succeed in making said entry or not. 



FENCES. 



SEC. 4239. [How expenses of making partition fences adjusted.] 



The owner or lessee for three or more years, of land adjoining a fence, 

 of whatsoever material constructed, in all respects such as a good hus- 

 bandman ought to keep, erected by the owner, or lessee for one or more 

 years, on the line of his land, who makes or causes to be made an in- 

 closure adjoining such fence, so that such fence answers the purpose 

 of inclosing his land, shall pay the owner of such fence already erected 

 one-half the value of so much thereof as serves as a partition fence, to 

 be adjudged by the 'township trustees of the township in which the fence 

 is situate; and" the amount so judged, if not paid, may be recovered by 

 the owner of such fence wifh costs of suit ; but nothing in this chapter 

 contained, shall apply to the inclosure of lots in municipal corporations. 



SEC, 42390. [Barbed wire partition fence; penalty.] No person 

 or corporation shall construct or cause to be constructed, in whole or 

 in part a partition fence, from barbed wire, unless the written consent 

 of the owner or lessee for three or more years of the premises be first 

 obtained. Whoever constructs or causes to be constructed a barbed wire 

 partition fence without the consent contemplated in this section, shall 

 be fined not more than one hundred dollars nor less than ten dollars. 



SEC. 4240. [Who to keep partition fences in repair; live fences.] 



The owners or lessees for one or more years of lands inclosed with fences, 



