Chap. 199.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act in force March 2, 1892,
entitled an act for the protection of stock breeders and owners of
licensed stallions, and to extend the breeders’ lien twelve months from
the delivery of a live colt, or until the price agreed upon for the seasen
by the owner of the stallion or jackass and the owner of the mare or
jennet be paid.

Approved March 15, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act in
force March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled an act
for the protection of stock breeders and owners of licensed stallions, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

81. 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
eolt, the owner of any such stallion or jackass shal] have a lien upon said
colt for a period of twelve months, or until the price agreed upon for
the season by the owner of the stallion or jackass and the owner of the
mare or jennet be paid. Said lien shall not extend for a longer period
than twelve months, and after judgment has been taken for the amount
of said fee, then, unless the same is paid, the officer 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 as is provided for by the existing law, and this lien shall}
be operative from the recordation thereof, and, if a chattel mortgage,
shall be recorded as other mortgages, and if not reduced to writing,
shall, upon application of the owner of the stallion or jackass, be re-
corded by the clerk of the circuit 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
wner of the foal, claims a lien on a colt or mule, as the case may be,
288 than twelve months old for dollars, for the get thereof.

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