and necessary expense or cost of the keep of such animal or animals from the day of sale to and including the day of redemption. APPROVED June 21, 1917.

REGULATING PUBLIC SERVICE OF STALLIONS AND JACKS.

རྩྭ 1. Stallion or jack for public service § 7. Fees-renewals-transfers to be registered-license.

cate certificates.

8. Date of expiration of license-renewal fee-when stallion or jack entitled to permanent certificate.

9. Department shall take cognizance of complaint reporting unsoundness and investigate fraud-revocation of license.

4. Department shall keep records of all stallions or jacks enrolled.

5. Owner to keep copies of license certificate forms of advertisement.

6. Pure-bred license shall be issued to what stallion or jack-grade license forms of license.

(SENATE BILL No. 413.

AN ACT to regulate the public service of stallions and jacks in Illinois. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That every person, firm, company or corporation standing or offering any stallion or jack for public service in this State shall cause the name, description and age, and in the case of a pure-bred animal the pedigree, of such staliion or jack to be enrolled by the Department of Agriculture, and secure a license from said department as provided in section two (2) of this Act.

§ 2. In order to obtain the license certificate herein provided for, the owner or owners of each stallion or jack shall forward an application and the fee to the Department of Agriculture, together with an affidavit executed by said owner or owners individually or by a graduate veterinarian acceptable to the Department of Agriculture to the effect that such stallion or jack is free from hereditary, infectious or contagious disease or unsoundness, or in the event of said stallion or jack being unsound, the nature and extent of said unsoundness shall be specified in the application, a notation of which shall be embodied in the certificate of license issued, as follows: Amourosis [amaurosis], bog spavin, side. bone, navicular disease, curb, chorea, string halt or roaring.

The owner of any pure-bred stallion or jack making application for license, shall furnish to the Department of Agriculture at the time the application for license is made, the stud book certificate of registry of said stallion or jack, and also all transfers, together with all other papers necessary to establish the breeding and ownership. Upon verification of pedigree, certificate of breeding, transfers of ownership and affidavit of soundness as provided for in this Act, a license certificate shall be issued to the owner making application for same. The refusal or failure to forward papers showing breeding and ownership as provided for in this section, shall be taken as evidence of their non-existence, and in all such cases, licenses as pure-bred animals shall be denied.

83. The presence of any one of the following named unsoundnesses shall disqualify a stallion or jack for public service: periodic ophthalmia (moonblindness); bone spavin; bog spavin; ring bone; curb, when accompanied by curby formation of the hock; or any contagious or infectious disease.

§ 4. The Department of Agriculture shall make and keep records of all stallions or jacks enrolled in the State of Illinois, said stallions and jacks to be licensed as "pure-bred," or "grade," according as the facts may have been determined. Upon making the enrollment of said stallion or jack, the Department of Agriculture shall issue a license certificate as above provided.

§ 5. The owner of any stallion or jack used for public service in this State shall post and keep affixed during the entire breeding season or seasons, a copy of the license certificate of such stallion or jack, and affidavit of soundness, issued under the provisions of this Act, in a conspicuous place upon the stall door or in the enclosure leading to said stall of every stable or building where said stallion or jack is used for public service. Said copies shall be printed in bold face type not smaller than great primer [.]

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Each bill, poster, newspaper advertisement or any other form of advertisement shall have as a heading for such bill, poster and advertisement the class of license issued for said stallion or jack and the number of his license: Thus, "Pure-bred License No... " "Grade License No...... as the case may be. In all advertisements published within the county in which the horse is owned this heading shall be set in the largest and boldest type used in the advertisement, and all unsoundness listed in the license certificate shall be so stated in said advertisement.

§ 6. A pure-bred license certificate shall be issued for a stallion or jack whose pedigree is registered in a stud book recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., in B. A. I. Order 175, dated November 25, 1910, or the pedigree of which is registered in the stud book of one of the following named associations, societies, clubs or corporations: American Association of Importers and Breeders of Belgian Draft Horses; American Breeders' Association of Jacks and Jennets; The American Breeders' and Importers' Percheron Registry Company; American Clydesdale Association; American Hackney Horse Society; American Morgan Registry Association; American. Saddle Horse Breeders' Association; American Shetland Pony Club; American Shire Horse Association; American Suffolk Horse Association; American Trotting Register Association; Arabian Horse Club of America; Cleveland Bay Society of America; French Coach Horse Society of America; German, Hanoverian and Oldenburg Coach Horse Association of America; Standard Jack and Jennet Registry Association of America; The Jockey Club; National French Draft Horse Association of America; Percheron Society of America; Welsh Pony and Cob Society of America.

A grade license certificate shall be issued for a stallion or jack whose pedigree is not registered in one of the above named associations, societies, clubs or corporations.

The license certificates issued by the Department of Agriculture shall be in such form or forms as prescribed and designated by the department, to show the true breeding and condition of soundness of the stallion or jack enrolled.

§ 7. A fee of two ($2.00) dollars shall be paid to the Department of Agriculture at the time application is made for enrollment and license, which application shall include the affidavit of soundness of the animal. This fee shall be in full payment for the examination of the pedigrees in cases of pure-bred animals; the enrollment of the name, description and ownership of each stallion or jack as "pure-bred," or "grade"; and the issuance of a license certificate in accordance with the breeding of the stallion or jack.

Renewal license certificates shall be issued annually, application for which shall be made between the first day of January and the first day of March of each year upon the filing of the original or last renewal license certificate together with an affidavit of soundness with the department and the payment of a renewal fee, which shall be one ($1.00) dollar.

Upon a transfer of ownership of any stallion or jack enrolled under the provisions of this Act, the license certificate may be transferred to the owner by the Department of Agriculture, upon submittal of satisfactory proof of such transfer of ownership and upon the payment of a fee of fifty cents.

Duplicate license certificates shall be issued only upon receipt of affidavit of owner or agent showing satisfactory proof of the loss or destruction of the original license certificate or renewal thereof and upon the payment of a fee of one ($1.00) dollar for duplicate original license certificate or a fee of fifty cents for a duplicate renewal license certificate.

§ 8. Each license issued by the Department of Agriculture shall expire on December 31 of the year in which it is issued, but each license may be renewed each year, provided the owner of said stallion or jack make application for renewal before March 1 following the date of expiration, and forward with such application for renewal a fee of one ($1.00) dollar for each renewal, and submit satisfactory evidence establishing the identity of the animal for which renewal of license is requested. Each renewal shall expire on December 31 of the year for which it is renewed. Failure to apply for license renewal, as herein provided, before March 1 following the date of expiration, shall forfeit the right of renewal and when such right has been forfeited, the owner of such stallion shall procure a new license as provided in section 2.

Any stallion or jack six years old or over having successfully passed examination for soundness as provided in this law for three (3) consecutive years shall be entitled to a permanent State certificate of soundness. The last examination must have been made by a veterinarian approved by the Illinois Department of Agriculture, said examination to have been made within the year in which permanent certificate is granted: Provided, however, that the said permanent certificate must be returned each year prior to March 1 to the Commissioner of Agri

culture with a fee of one ($1.00) dollar for renewal, and must be accompanied by affidavit from owner that said animal is free from contagious, infectious or communicable disease.

§ 9. The department shall have the right at any time to take cognizance of any complaint, written or verbal, reporting unsoundness of any licensed stallion or jack, and require an examination by a veterinarian if deemed necessary, and [in] case said stallion or jack upon such examination is found to be unsound under the law, to revoke the license; also, to investigate at any time any fraud which may have been perpetrated or attempted in connection with an application for license certificate or affidavit of soundness, and when such cases arise, the department is authorized to revoke the license or take such other action as the facts in the case may warrant.

§ 10. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof before any magistrate, justice of the peace, or other judicial officer of the county wherein the violation is committed, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five ($25.00) dollars and not exceeding one hundred ($100.00) dollars for each offense. All fines shall be for the use of the State of Illinois.

§ 11. The funds accruing from the above named fees and fines shall be turned into the State treasury at the times and in the manner provided by law.

§ 12. It shall be the duty of the Department of Agriculture to make an annual report, including financial statement of its activities under this Act, to the Governor of the State, and to enforce this law.

13. An Act to regulate the public service of stallions in Illinois, approved June 10, 1909, in force January 1, 1910, is hereby repealed. APPROVED June 21, 1917.

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to indemnify the owners of sheep in cases of damage committed by dogs, approved May 29, 1879, in force July 1, 1879, as subsequently amended, by amending the title thereto, by amending sections 1, 2 and 5 thereof, and by adding five new sections to be known as sections 1a, 2a, 2b, 2c and 10."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act to indemnify the owners of sheep in cases of damage committed by dogs,"

approved May 29, 1879, in force July 1, 1879, as subsequently amended, be and the same is hereby amended, by amending the title thereto, by amending sections 1, 2 and 5 thereof, and by adding five new sections to be known as sections 1a, 2a, 2b, 2c, and 10 to read as follows:

Section 1. That each county and township assessor in this State, when making assessment, shall, annually, make a list of the names of all persons who own or keep a dog or dogs and set opposite the name of such owner or keeper the number of dogs he or she has in his or her possession or that is or are kept on his or her premises, stating whether male, or sterilized or unsterilized female, which list shall be returned by such assessor to the county clerk of the county in which said list is taken, as soon as the assessment is completed.

§ 1a. It shall be the duty of the assessor when making out the lists as provided in the foregoing section, to deliver to the owner or keeper of every dog license, a metallic tag, stamped with the year for which the list is made, and the name of the county in which issued, and the owner or keeper of every such dog shall cause to be placed upon the neck of each dog so owned or kept, a substantial collar provided with the means of attaching thereto a metallic tag as herein provided. It shall be the duty of the county clerk of each county to provide the tags herein mentioned and to keep a record of license tags delivered to each assessor, and the number returned at the time of returning the list, by such assessor. Any person becoming the owner of a dog after the assessment has been returned by the assessor, and any owner of a dog who for any reason the assessor has failed to list, may at any time apply to the county clerk and procure such license tag, by paying to such clerk the license fee herein provided.

§ 2. The county clerk shall charge upon the collector's book against the name of each person reported and returned as the owner or keeper of a dog or dogs as a license fee the sum of one dollar for each male or sterilized dog, and three dollars for each unsterilized female dog owned or kept by such person, which fee shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as taxes upon personal property. In counties not under township organization, the collector shall pay the amount received from the licenses aforesaid to the treasurer of his county, and in counties under township organization, the sum so collected in each town shall be paid by the collector to the supervisor of his town: Provided, such supervisors shall not be required to give any new bond for such license fee, but such supervisor and his sureties shall be liable on his original bond as supervisor in the same manner and to the same extent as they now are for other moneys received by such supervisor by virtue of his office.

Provided, further, that section 1, section 1a, and section 2 of this Act shall not apply to the owners or keepers of dogs who reside within the limits of a city or village having a population of 100,000 or more according to the last preceding Federal or State census in which the licensing of dogs is now or may hereafter be provided for by ordinance.

§ 2a. The owner or keeper of any dog or dogs shall be liable in an action on the case for all damages that may accrue to any person by