Short title CHAPTER 20. An Ordinance to protect Horse Breeders in the [Assented to April 29, 1899.] HE Lieutenant Governor by and with the advice and THE consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories enacts as follows: SHORT TITLE. 1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Horse Breeders' Lien Ordinance." Registration of stallions Advertise ments of stallions Filing claim of lien for service REGISTRATION OF STALLIONS. 2. Any person residing in the North-West Territories who is the owner of a stallion registered in any recognised stud book approved by the commissioner of agriculture, may register such stallion in the department of agriculture and procure a certificate of such registration in a form to be prescribed by the said commissioner; such owner shall pay to the said department for such registration the sum of $5; upon the sale of an animal so registered a transfer of the certificate may be made upon payment of a fee of $1. 3. Every bill, poster or advertisement issued by the owner of such stallion, or used by him for advertising such stallion, shall contain a copy of such certificate, otherwise the owner shall not be entitled to the benefits of this Ordinance. REGISTRATION OF LIEN FOR SERVICE. 4. The owner of any stallion registered under the section 2 of this Ordinance, or his agent, may file in the office of the registration clerk of the registration district for mortgages and other transfers of personal property in which the owner or person in charge of any mare upon which such stallion. performs service resides, within three months after such service is performed, a statutory declaration setting forth1. The amount of service fee. 2. That the same is unpaid; 3. The fact of such service; 4. A reasonable description of such mare; and 5. The name and residence of the owner of such mare and the registration clerk shall file the said affidavit upon receipt of ten cents. Its effect 5. The owner of such stallion upon filing such affidavit Lien and complying with the provisions of this Ordinance shall have a lien to the amount of said service fee and costs as hereinafter provided, upon the colt or filly, the offspring of any such stallion for the service in respect of which such affidavit is filed, which lien shall take and have priority over any and all writs of execution, chattel mortgages, bills of sale, claims and encumbrances whatsoever. ENFORCEMENT OF LIEN. realise lien 6. If payment of the service fee is not made before the first Sale of colt to day of January in the year following the year in which the colt or filly is born, the owner of said stallion or his duly authorised agent may, at any time before the first day of May following, take possession of the colt or filly upon which he has such lien as aforesaid, wherever the same may be found, and may proceed to sell the same by pubiic auction after giving the person in whose possession the said colt or filly was when taken, ten days' notice in writing of such intention to sell, which notice may be effectually given to such person by delivering the same to him personally, or by posting the notice upon the door of such person's last known place of residence in the North-West Territories. of proceeds 7. The proceeds of such sale shall be applied first in payment Application of the reasonable expenses of the taking of possession, giving of notice, and conduct of sale not in all in any case to exceed $10, next in payment of said service fee, and the balance shall be paid forthwith by the owner of the stallion to the person from whose possession such colt or filly was taken. CHAPTER 21. An Ordinance to amend Chapter 77 of The Consoli- [Assented to April 29, 1899.] Lawful fence defined THE HE Lieutenant Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories enacts as follows: 1. Section 3 of The Fence Ordinance is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor "3. Any of the fences in this section described shall be deemed a lawful fence: "1. Any substantial fence not less than four feet high if it (a) Of rails or boards not less than four in number, the (b) Of upright posts, boards or palings not more than six. (c) Of barbed wire and a substantial top-rail, the wires to (d) of three or more barbed wires, the lower one not more (e) Of not less than three barbed wires on posts not more H (g) of woven wire secured to posts not more than 35 feet "2. Any river bank or other natural boundary sufficient to keep domestic animals out of any land: "Provided that any fence that shall be in existence at the date of the coming into force of this Ordinance and which would have been deemed to be a lawful fence under the provisions of The Fence Ordinance shall continue to be so deemed so long as it is in accordance with the provisions of the said Ordinance." 2. Section 5 of the said Ordinance is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor: "5. Any fence surrounding stacks of hay or grain shall be Fences deemed a lawful fence if constructed according to the provisions surrounding of section 3 of this Ordinance and situated not less than ten feet from such stacks." stacks 3. It shall be the duty of any person erecting any wire fence Fences across across any trail that has been in common use by the public for closed trails a period of three months immediately previous to such erection to place a top rail on such fence where it crosses the trail and for a distance of two rods on each side from the centre of the trail. Short title CHAPTER 22. An Ordinance respecting Noxious Weeds. [Assented to April 29, 1899.] THE Lieutenant Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories enacts as follows: SHORT TITLE. 1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Noxious Weeds Ordinance." Interpretation Appointment of inspectors and officers Noxious weeds INTERPRETATION. 2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires1. The expression "noxious weeds" shall include tumbling mustard, hare's ear mustard, common wild mustard, any other variety of mustard, rag weed, red root, Canada thistle, Russian thistle, wild oats and French weed; 2. The expression "department" means the department of agriculture; 3. The expression "commissioner" means the commissioner of agriculture; 4. The expression "overseer" means the overseer of a local improvement district; 5. The expression "inspector" ineans an inspector appointed under this Ordinance; 6. The expression "occupant" means a person using or enjoying any land ; 7. The expression "owner" includes every person, other than the occupant, who has any estate or interest in land or who has any right to be vested with such an estate or interest. INSPECTORS AND OTHER OFFICERS. 3. The Commissioner may from time to time appoint such inspectors and other officers as may be required to carry out the provisions of this Ordinance, fix their remuneration and define their duties. DUTY OF OWNER OR OCCUPANT OF LAND. 4. Every owner or occupant of land shall destroy all noxious to be destroyed weeds thereon and if he make default in so doing he shall be |