CHAP. 587.—An ACT for the protection of stock breeders and
owners of licensed stallions.

In force March 2, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That any person who owns a mare or jennet and breeds
the same to any stallion or jackass that is duly licensed
under the license laws of the state of Virginia, and where
such mare shall be bred to and become in foal by any such
stallion or jackass, and the same is delivered of a live colt,
the owner of any such stallion or jackass shall! bave a lien
upon said colt for a period of six months, or until the
price agreed upon for the season by the owner of the stal-
lion or jackass and the owner of the mare or jennet be
paid. Said lien shall not extend for a longer period than
six months, and after judgment has been taken for the
amount of said fee, then, unless the same is paid, the offi-
cer in whose hands the fee is placed for collection may
proceed to levy on and sell said colt for the aforesaid fee
and costs, and he shall be entitled to the same fees for his
services a8 is provided for by the existing law, and this
lien shall be operative from the recordation thereof, and
if a chattel mortgage shal! be recorded as other mortgages,
and if not reduced to writing shall, upon application of
the owner of the stallion or jackass, be recorded by the
clerk of the county court of the county in which the foal
is foaled, in the deed-book in the following form:

The owner of the stallion or jackass (giving his name)
versus the owner of the foal, claims a lien on a colt or
mule, as the case may be, less than six months old for
$ , for the get thereof.

The clerk shall be entitled to a fee of thirty cents for the
recordation of each of such last described liens.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.