LIEN OF MECHANICS AND OTHERS.

ing fieri facias, or scire facias in all claims between ten and
fifty dollars, twenty-five cents; for issuing fieri facias or scire

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facias, in all claims of fifty dollars and upwards, fifty cents; for
taking acknowledgment of any deed or instrument of writing)
each justice twenty-five cents for each and every person so
acknowledging the same.

For ac-
knowledg-
ing deed*
Additional
fees.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That it may be lawful for said
justices, when called out of their offices on business, not judi-
cial and not relating to criminal procedure, to receive such other
additional compensation for their services as the parties so re-
quiring them, may be disposed to allow for the same, any thing
contained in the original acts and the several supplements
thereto, to the contrary, in any wise, notwithstanding.

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT to authorize the appointment of Justices of
the Peace in the City of Baltimore, with limited jurisdiction, passed at
December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, chapter one hun-
dred and eighty-nine. — 1834, ch. 289.

For duties
out of
office.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
so much of the act to which this is a supplement as limits the
number of justices thereby authorized to be appointed, to four,
be, and the same is hereby repealed ; and that the governor, by
and with the advice and consent 6f the council,, be authorized
to appoint such number of justices of the description and with
the powers mentioned in the said act, as in their opinion shall
be useful and necessary for the public convenience and welfare;
Provided always, that the justices so appointed, shall not be
authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds.
See 1835, ch 224, sec. 3, ante page 1214, as to the requisites to be ob-
served in taking a supersedeas.

LIEN OF MECHANICS AND OTHERS.
AN ACT relating to the Lien of Mechanics and others, upon Buildings.
1838, ch. 205.

Number
left at
discretion.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That every building erected within the city of Baltimore, shall
bo subject to a lien for the payment of all debts contracted for
work done, or materials furnished for* or about the erection or
construction of the same.

Buildings in
Baltimore
aubject to
liens.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the lien of such debts shall
extend to the ground covered by such building, and to so much
other ground immediately adjacent thereto, and belonging in
like manner to the owner of such building, as may be necessary
for the ordinary and useful purposes of such buildings, the
quantity and boundaries whereof shall be determined as follows.

Extend to
the lot.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
clerk of Baltimore county court, to procure and keep a book, or
docket, which shall be called the mechanics' lien docket, in

Mechanics*
lien docket.