318 XOTED MAINE HORSES. 



EXTRACT FROM PUBLIC LAWS. 



CHAPTER 135. 

 AN ACT for the better preservation of horse records. 



Be it enacted, etc., as foUoTTS : 



Sect. 1. Any person or persons owning or keeping a stallion 

 for breeding piirposes, shall be required before advertising, by 

 ■written or printed notices, the services of said stallion, to file a 

 certificate vrith the register of deeds in the county -n-here said 

 stallion is owned or kept, stating name, color, age, size, together 

 with the pedigree of said stallion as full as attainable, and the 

 name of the person by whom said stallion was bred ; and it shall 

 he the duty of the register to record such certificate in a book 

 kept for that purpose, properly indexed, upon receipt of a fee of 

 fifty cents for each certificate of not more than one page, and a 

 f iirther sum of twenty-five cents for each additional page. 



Sect. 2. Any person who shaU neglect to make and file the 

 certificate required by the provisions of this act shall not recover 

 any compensation for the services named in sectionjone, and if 

 he shall knowingly and willfully make and file a false certificate 

 of the statements aforesaid, shall forfeit the sum of one hundred 

 dollars, to be recovered by complaint, indictment, or action of 

 debt in any court of competent jurisdiction ; and all penalties re- 

 covered shall be for the use of the county where the offence is 

 committed. 



Sect. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. 

 [Approved February 26, 1873.] 



ERRATA. 



On page 40, 4th line from the top, the figures S9,3oi should read 

 59.35J. 



On page 88, Mineada should read Mineola. 



On page 128, in. the sketch of GUbreth Knox, 7th line, the fig- 

 ures §1700 should be $17,000. 



