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 BRANDS AND EARMARKS.

CHAPTER 37.

[S. F. 186.]

RELATING TO BRANDS ON DOMESTIC ANIMALS.

AN ACT Entitled "An Act Relating to the Use of Brands and Earmarks on Domestic Animals and Live Stock, and Repealing Chapter 61 of the Session Laws of 1881."

Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1. EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS.] Any person or persons, partnership, ASsociation or corporation, having cattle, hogs, sheep, horses, mules or asses, shall have the right to adopt a brand or earmark, for the use of which he or they shall have the sole and exclusive right, in the State of North Dakota, when a certificate, signed by the parties desiring to adopt such brand or earmark, or by the officer managing such association or corporation, shall have been filed for record in the office of the Secretary of State, of the said State of North Dakota, and such certificate shall set forth a fac simile and description of the brand or earmark, which the parties desire to use, and shall also state the different counties in which the parties desire to have the said brand or earmark recorded.

§ 2. RECORD-FEES.] It is hereby made the duty of the Secretary of State of the State of North Dakota, to procure two suitable books, one to be known as the "brand record," and the other as the "earmark record," in which he shall record all brands and earmarks that may be filed for record in his office; and he shall receive a fee of three (3) dollars for his services, for every brand or earmark, so filed and recorded as aforesaid, together with one (1) dollar for each register of deeds in each county in which such brands or earmark is to be recorded.

§ 3. .] Upon the filing of the certificate of brand or earmark, and the payment of the fees specified in the foregoing section it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to cause the said certificate to be recorded in the proper record book, and to immediately transmit a certified copy of such certificate to the register of deeds of each county in which the same is to be recorded, together with one (1) dollar, the register of deed's fee for recording the same, and when the county in which such domestic animals or live stock may be situated is an unorganized county, then to the register of deeds of the