Foaled in the year ...., has been examined and it is found that his sire is registered in the.. and his dam in Such being the case, the said stallion is not eligible for registration in any stud book recognized by the department of agriculture of the State of Washington. (Signature)... Commissioner of Agriculture. Subdiv. 4. The license certificate issued for a nonstandard-bred stallion shall be used in the following form: non-stand Department of agriculture of the State of Washing Form for ton. Certificate of non-standard-bred stallion No. . . . . . ard-bred The pedigree so far as may be known of the stallion (name) Owned by Described as follows: (Color) Foaled in the year has been examined and it is found that the stallion is not eligible to registration as standard-bred, and for the purpose of the license is not pure-bred, although recorded in a non-standard department of the American Trotting Register. (Signature).. Commissioner of Agriculture. SEC. 4. That section 5 of chapter 99 of the Laws of 1911 be amended to read as follows: stallion. Advertiseposters to ments and set forth Section 5. Each bill and poster issued by the owner of any stallion or jack enrolled under this act, or used by him or his agent for advertising, shall have such stallion's registration. or jack's certificate of enrollment printed in bold-face type, not smaller than long primer, on said bill or poster, and the first mention thereon of the name of the stallion or jack shall be preceded by the words: "Pure-bred," "grade," "cross-bred," or "non-standard-bred," in accordance with the wording of the certificate of enrollment; and Enrollment and license fees. Renewal of licenses. Transfer of Repealing clause. it shall be illegal to print upon the poster any misleading reference to the breeding of the stallion or jack, his sire or his dam, or to use upon such bill or poster a portrait of a stallion or jack in a misleading way; and each newspaper advertisement printed to advertise any stallion or jack for public service shall show the enrollment certificate number and state whether it reads "pure-bred," "grade," "cross-bred," or "non-standard-bred." A fee of two dollars ($2.00) shall be paid to the department of agriculture for the examination and enrollment of each pedigree and for the issuance of a license certificate, in accordance with the breeding for the stallion or jack as above provided. A renewal of each license certificate issued under the provisions of this act shall be obtained from the commissioner of agriculture on the thirty-first day of December of the year following the year in which such certificate was issued and every two years thereafter, by filing with the commissioner of agriculture a new certificate of soundness, issued within thirty days prior to the application for such renewal by an authorized veterinarian, and the payment of a fee of one dollar ($1.00). Upon the transfer of the ownership of any stallion or jack enrolled under the provisions of this act, the certificate of enrollment may be transferred to the transferee by said department upon submittal of satisfactory proof of such transfer and upon payment of the fee of fifty cents (50c); and a fee of fifty cents (50c) shall be charged for a duplicate license certificate issued where proof is given of loss or destruction of the original certificate. SEC. 5. That section 8 of chapter 99 of the Laws of 1911 be, and the same is, hereby repealed. Passed the Senate February 5, 1917. Passed the House March 6, 1917. Approved by the Governor March 13, 1917. CHAPTER 113. [H. B. 147.] DELINQUENT TAX CERTIFICATE FORECLOSURE BY AN ACT relating to the foreclosure of delinquent tax certificates, Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: SECTION 1. That section 9257 of Rem. & Bal. Code be amended to read as follows: certificates to county. by county. Section 9257. After the expiration of five years from Delinquency the date of delinquency, when any property remains on the tax-rolls for which no certificate of delinquency has been issued, the county treasurer shall proceed to issue certificates of delinquency on said property to the county, and shall file said certificates when completed with the clerk of the court, and the treasurer shall thereupon, with such legal assistance as the county commissioners shall provide in counties having a population of thirty thouand or more, and with the assistance of the county prosecuting attorney in counties having a population of less than thirty thousand, proceed to foreclose in the name Foreclosure of the county, the tax liens embraced in such certificates, and the same proceedings shall be had as when held by an individual: Provided, That summons may be served or notice given exclusively by publication in one general notice, describing the property as the same is described on the tax-rolls. Said certificates of delinquency issued to the county may be issued in one general certificate in book form including all property, and the proceedings quents. to foreclose the liens against said property may be brought in one action and all persons interested in any of the property involved in said proceedings may be made co-defendants in said action, and if unknown may be therein named as unknown owners, and the publication of such Issuance of cate covering one certifi all delin Parties. Publication of notice. notice shall be sufficient service thereof on all persons interested in the property described therein. The names of the person or persons appearing on the treasurer's rolls as the owner or owners of said property for the purpose of this chapter shall be considered and treated as the owner or owners of said property, and if upon said treasurer's rolls it appears that the owner or owners of said property are unknown, then said property shall be proceeded against, as belonging to an unknown owner or owners as the case may be, and all persons owning or claiming to own, or having or claiming to have an interest therein, are hereby required to take notice of said proceedings and of any and all steps thereunder. The publication of the summons or notice required by this section shall be made by the county treasurer in the official newspaper of the county: Provided, The price charged by any such newspaper for such publication, for the whole number of issues, shall not exceed in any case the price stated in the contract of the county with such newspaper for county printing, and that, if such publication cannot be made in said newspaper at said price, the county treasurer may cause such publication to be made in any other newspaper printed, published and of general circulation in the county, at a cost for the whole number of issues not to exceed in any case the maximum rate for county printing fixed by contract for such year. Passed the House March 2, 1917. Passed the Senate March 6, 1917. Approved by the Governor March 14, 1917. CHAPTER 114. [H. B. 149.] COUNTY PRINTING. AN ACT relating to county printing, and amending sections 3912 and 3913 of Remington & Ballinger's Annotated Codes and Statutes of Washington. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: SECTION 1. That section 3912 of Rem. & Bal. Code be amended to read as follows: Bids to be Section 3912. In all counties where two or more weekly, semi-weekly or daily newspapers are published, it required. shall be the duty of the county commissioners, at their April meeting each year, to let the advertising and official publication of all notices to the publisher thereof who is the best and lowest responsible bidder: Provided, That in all cases the county commissioners shall consider the Circulation question of circulation in awarding the county printing considered. contract, with a view to giving said printing the widest publicity; and no newspaper shall be eligible as a competitor, nor shall a contract be let to any newspaper, unless the same shall have been established, published and circulated in the county for at least six months, and has a general and bona fide circulation throughout the county in which it is published: Provided, further, That in Counties counties where there is no newspaper published, the com- newspapers. missioners of such county shall cause the printing of said county to be done in some newspaper in the state, of general circulation in the county, having no resident newspaper, and the newspaper to which such contract is let, shall be designated as the official newspaper of the county: Provided further, That the county commissioners shall Bond for require a bond in double the amount involved in the contract, for the correct and faithful performance of all such contracts and the work to be done thereunder: Provided further, That the term of the successful bidder shall not commence until the first day of July succeeding the letting of such contract. with no performance. |