ODEN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 621

or manufactured concentrated manures including ground bones on credit, it shall b« lawful for such purchaser or purchasers of any of said manures to pledge to the person or persons from whom they are purchased, as security for the price of said manures with interest at the rate of six per cent per annum until paid, all the crops which may be made or gathered or such portion thereof as may be designated in their agreement, for the making of which said manures may have been purchased, and such pledge when entered into as hereinafter required, shall be a preferred lien on such crop or crops, and to he paid out of the proceeds thereof before all judgments, executions or other claims whatever against said purchaser or purchasers, ex- cept in the case of rent as hereinafter provided for.	Crops liable for.
Sec. 2. And be if, enacted, That the vendor or vendors of any of said manures, shall make out an account of the sales thereof made by them to any purchaser or purchasers to which such purchaser or purchasers shall add to the pledge aforesaid in writing, and signed by said purchaser or pur- chasers, and which shall be recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the county in which the land, upon which such manures may be applied, shall be located, and such recording there-	Account of sales.
of, for which the Clerk aforesaid shall receive the usual fee, shall be sufficient notice to all persons of the preferred claim of such vendor or vendors; provided in the case of the death of the purchaser aforesaid, the claim of said vendor or vendors, shall be submitted to and passed by the Orphans' Court of the county in which the purchaser shall have been a resident upon which the executor or administrator shall be bound to pay to said vendor or vendors, the proceeds of the sale of the crops aforesaid, or so much thereof as may be necessary to satisfy the claim of said vendor or vendors.	Fee of clerk.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That any Sheriff or Constable may levy execution on any of the crops so as aforesaid pledged, but shall pay to the pledgee or pledgees or their agent out of any sales thereof, which shall be made by said Sheriff or Constable, and before any other application of the proceeds of such sales, the amount for which the crops levied upon shall be pledged, or the amount that may be	Levy Execu- tion.