herein provided, before March 1st following the date of expiration, shall forfeit the right of renewal, and when said right has been forfeited, the owner of said stallion or jack shall procure a new license as provided in Section 2.

Description and Contents of License.

Section 7. The license certificate for a stallion or jack correctly recorded in a stud or jack book recognized by the Oklahoma Live Stock Registry Board shall contain the following information: License number, registration number, breed, color, age, pedigree, name and address of owner, date of issue, the seal of the Oklahoma Live Stock Registry Board, and the signature of the Secretary of the Oklahoma Live Stock Registry Board. The license for a cross-bred, grade or scrub stallion shall contain the following information: License number, statement of breeding, color, age, name and address of owner, date of issue, seal of the Oklahoma Live Stock Registry Board, and the signature of the Secretary of the Oklahoma State Live Stock Registry Board.

Advertising Bills-License Number.

Section 8. Every bill, poster or other advertisement of every kind or nature, issued by the owner, keeper or person in charge of any stallion or jack enrolled and licensed under this act, and used to advertise such stallion or jack by said owner, keeper, or person in charge, shall have as a heading for such advertisement the class of license issued for said stallion or jack and the number of his license: Thus "Pure bred license number," "Cross-bred license number," "Grade license number -," or "Scrub license number," as the case may be. In all advertisements this heading shall be set in the largest and boldest type used in the advertisement.

Posting License Certificate.

Section 9. The owner, keeper, or person in charge of any stallion or jack standing for public service in this State shall post and keep affixed during the entire breeding season, the license certificate of each stallion or jack issued

under the provision of this act, in a conspicuous place in each stable or building where such stallion or jack stands for public service.

Transfer of License.

Section 10. Upon transfer of ownership of any stallion or jack licensed under the provisions of this act, the new owner shall forward to the office of the Oklahoma State Live Stock Registry Board, the license issued in the name of the former owner together with a fee of fifty cents and satisfactory evidence that the stallion or jack transferred is the one for which the license was originally issued. It shall be the duty of the Oklahoma State Live Stock Registry Board to record such transfer and issue a license in the name of the new owner.

List of Owners-County Clerk to Furnish.

Section 11. It shall be the duty of the county clerk of each county in the State of Oklahoma to file with the Oklahoma State Live Stock Registry Board before July 1st of each year, a complete list of all the stallion or jack owners in his county, together with the number of stallions or jacks owned by each as shown by the assessors report of that particular county. He shall also file with the Oklahoma State Live Stock Registry Board before July 1, of each year, the total number of horses in his particular county.

Certificate of Soundness-Optional.

Section 12. It shall be optional with the owners, keepers or persons in charge of stallions or jacks standing for public service whether or not said stallions or jacks shall be examined for soundness, but no stallions or jacks shall be advertised in any manner either directly or indirectly as a sound stallion or jack until a certificate of soundness has been issued for said stallion or jack by the Oklahoma State Live Stock Registry Board, and then said stallion or jack may be advertised as sound only during the life of the certificate of soundness. This certificate of soundness shall become null and void and not in force on December 31st of

the year during which it was issued. The fee for each certificate of soundness shall not exceed $2.00 for each stalentitled to a pension under the provisions of this act, while lion or jack.

Penalty.

Section 13. Any person, persons, firm, company, corporation or association that shall violate any of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction in any court of competent jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine of not less than $20.00 and not more than $50.00 for each offense.

Funds-Disposition.

Section 14. The funds accruing from the above named fees shall be used by the Oklahoma State Live Stock Registry Board to defray the expense of enrollment of pedigrees and the issuing of licenses, to publish reports or bulletins containing list of stallions or jacks, licenses and transfers, and all money accruing above the amount necessary for said purpose shall be turned into the general revenue fund of the State. It shall be the duty of the Oklahoma Live Stock Registry Board to make annual reports including financial statements, to the Governor of the State, and all financial records of said Oklahoma State Live Stock Registry Board shall be open to inspection.

Liens For Services.

Section 15. The owner of any stallion or jack, upon complying with the provisions of this act, shall have a lien upon any female animal, subject to prior liens, to which such animal is let and upon the offspring of such animal, the result of such services for the sum contracted therefor. Such lien shall attach at the time of service of such male and shall be superior to any mortgage lien placed upon the female animal or offspring after the time of service, and such lien shall not be lost by reason of any sale, exchange, removal from the county, or other disposition of such female animal or offspring, but upon such sale, exchange, re

moval or disposition without consent of the person holding the lien, the same may be immediately enforced.

Printed Bills-Duties.

Section 16. The owner of any stallion or jack who avails himself of the provisions of this act, shall during the breeding season of such animal, keep posted in a public and conspicuous place on the premises where the services of such animal are to be performed, a plainly written or printed hand bill, showing the charges for the services to be rendered and the terms of payment thereof, and any person breeding a female animal shall be held to have consented to the price and terms of services as stated therein.

Liens-Procedure to Collect.

Section 17. At any time within twenty months after his right of action accrues the owner of such sire may file with any justice of the peace in the county, a written statement, duly verified, setting forth the amount of his claim, his cause of action, and a description of the animal or animals upon which he has a lien, and the justice shall thereupon issue summons as in other cases, and embody therein a description of the animal or animals upon which said lien is claimed, and an order to the constable to take the animal or animals and hold it or them subject to the order of the court.

Bond Pending Trial.

Section 18. The owner may give bond for the retention of such animal or animals as in action for the recovery of personal property.

Section 19. If, upon trial, judgment be rendered for the plaintiff, the court shall order a sale of the animal or animals, as in execution sales, to pay the judgment and costs, and, if bond be given for the retention of the animal or animals, the court shall render judgment on the bond against the sureties thereon for the amount of the plaintiff's debt and costs.

Sale of Animals Served-Notice.

Section 20. Any person who shall sell or otherwise dispose of any animal subject to the lien provided for in this act, without notifying the person to whom said sale or other disposition is made, of the existence of the lien shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction for such offense shall be punished by a fine of not less than $25.00 nor more than $100.00 or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten days nor more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Approved February 25, 1915.

CHAPTER 54.

PENSIONS CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS.

AN ACT providing a pension for disabled and indigent Confederate soldiers, sailors, and their widows; providing how such pension shall be granted; creating the Board of Pension Commissioners and prescribing their duties; providing for an appropriation to carry into effect this act.

Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oklahoma:

Who Shall Receive Pension.

Section 1. Hereafter, every person shall receive a pension not to exceed ten ($10.00) dollars per month, who enlisted and served as a soldier or a sailor in the army or navy of the Confederate States of America, or of any of the States thereof, for a period of three months, and who is indigent and who is incapacitated for the performance of manual labor in the ordinary avocations of life, by reason of wounds, received in the discharge of his duty as such soldier or sailor, or who is now so incapacitated by reason of age, accident, or disease, and every indigent widow of such soldier or sailor remaining unmarried; provided, such soldier, sailor, or widow has resided in the State of Oklahoma for twelve (12) months prior to the passage and approval of this act; provided further, that no pension shall