ART. 61.] MECHANICS' LIEN. 409

21. In every case in which one claim for materials shall be
filed by the person preferring the same against two or more
buildings owned by the same person, the person filing such joint
claim shall at the same time designate the amount he claims to
be due him on each of said buildings, otherwise such claim shall
be postponed to other lien creditors; and the lien of such
claimant shall not extend beyond the amount so designated as
against other creditors having liens by judgment, mortgage or
otherwise.

22. Every machine erected, constructed or repaired within
this State, shall be subject to a lien in like manner as buildings
are made subject under the provisions of this article.

23. Every such debt shall be a lien until after the expiration
of six months after the work has been finished or the materials
furnished, although no claim has been filed therefor, but no
longer, unless a claim shall be filed at or before the expiration
of that period.

24. The proceedings to recover the amount of any lien under
this article, whether upon a house, machine, boat or vessel, shall
be by bill in equity, or by scire facias.

25. If the proceeding is by bill in equity, the same proceedings
shall be had as used by the courts of equity to enforce other
liens, and the court shall decree a sale, and appoint a trustee to
make sale thereof, and shall apportion the proceeds of such sale
among the persons entitled to liens according to their respective
rights.

26. If the proceeding to enforce .such lien is by scire facias,
the scire facias shall recite the filing of the claim, with the name
of the owner of the property to be affected by the lien, the name
of the claimant and the amount of claim, and the date of filing
the same, with the usual clause of scire facias, to the persons to
be affected by such writ.

27. No scire facias on such claim shall be issued in the city of
Baltimore within fifteen days, nor in any county within thirty
days, from the return day of such writ.

28. The said writ shall be served in the same manner as other
writs of scire facias upon the defendant therein named, if he can