412 MECHANICS' LIEN. [ART. 61.

39. In every case in which the amount of any such lien shall
be paid, or otherwise satisfied, the claimant or his legal repre-
sentative, at the request of the owner of the building, or of any
other person interested therein, and on payment of the costs,
shall enter satisfaction on the record of such claim in the office
of the clerk of the Circuit Court for the county, or Superior
Court of Baltimore city, as the case may be, which shall forever
discharge and release the same.

40. If any person who shall have received satisfaction for such
claim shall neglect or refuse to enter satisfaction therefor within
sixty days after the request and payment of the costs of suit, he
shall forfeit and pay to the party aggrieved any sum not exceed-
ing one-half of the amount of such claim, to be recovered in the
same manner as debts of a like amount are recoverable.

41. This article shall be construed and have the same effect as
laws which give general jurisdiction, or are remedial in their
nature, and such amendments shall from time to time and at any
time be made in the proceedings, commencing with the claim or
lien to be filed and extending to all subsequent proceedings, as
may be necessary and proper; Provided, that the amount of the
claim or lien filed shall not in any ease be enlarged.

42. Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to
affect the right of any person to whom any debt may be due for
work done or materials furnished to maintain any personal
action against the owner of the building, or any other person
liable therefor.

43. The provision of the preceding sections of this article shall
not apply to Kent, Queen Anne's, Somerset, Worcester, Charles,
Calvert or Saint Mary's counties.

44. All canal boats or vessels of any kind used or intended to
be used as carriers of coal, other freight, or passengers on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, shall be subject to a lien and bound
for the payment thereof as preferred debts, for all debts due to
boat builders, mechanics, merchants, farmers, or other persons,
from the owners, masters, captains or other agents of the owners
of such boats or vessels, for materials furnished or work done in
the building, repairing or equipping the same.