MECHANICS' LIEN. 2157

double the amount of said claim, with the Clerk of the Circuit Court for
the County, or with the Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City,
where the corporation, firm, individual, association, or person, claiming such
lien may have repaired or stored said motor vehicle, which said bond shall
be approved by the Clerk of said Court, and which said bond shall be con-
ditioned upon the payment of the full amount of any final judgment which
may be recovered upon such claim, together with interest, and all costs
incident to any such suit, and any costs and expenses which may have been
incurred in connection with the enforcement of such lien up to the time
that such lien claimant is notified of the filing of such bond. And the filing
of such bond shall operate as a stay of execution under said lien until the
amount thereof shall have been judicially determined; and in any such suit
against the owner of said motor vehicle by such lien claimant after filing
of such bond, if any defendant is returned non est, service may be secured
by publication as in the case of a suit against a non-resident, provided,
however, that suit be instituted within six months from the presentation
of said bond, otherwise the bond is to be null and void.

1924, ch. 417, sec. 56.

56. Any corporation, firm, individual, association or person who may
have a lien under this sub-title on any motor vehicle or part thereof for
repairs, rebuilding or storage, or having furnished for or on account of said
motor vehicle and parts, accessories or tires may, if the account is due and
unpaid for a period of thirty days and if the lienor still retains possession of
the same, sell said motor vehicle or part thereof at public sale at some place
which shall be convenient and accessible to the public at any time between
the hours of 10 o'clock A. M. and 6 o'clock P. M., provided the time, place
and terms of said sale, together with a full detailed description of said
motor vehicle or part thereof shall be inserted in one or more daily news-
papers published in the city or county where said sale is to take place at
least once each week for two successive weeks prior to said sale; and
provided further, that a registered notice shall be mailed at least ten days
prior to said sale to the owner of said motor vehicle or part thereof, if his
address be known, or if it can be ascertained by the exercise of reasonable
diligence, or by mailing said notice by registered mail to the person who
gave the order for said repairs, storage, rebuilding, parts, accessories, or
tires. If the address of neither of said persons is known, and by the exercise
of reasonable diligence cannot be ascertained, then such notice shall be
mailed to " General Delivery " at the Post Office of the city or county
where the business of said lienor is located. Any excess in the amount of
the selling price of said motor vehicle or part thereof at said sale over
and above the expenses thereof, including a reasonable attorney's fee and
the amount of said lien, shall be remitted to the owner of said motor vehicle
or part thereof.

1924, ch. 417, sec. 57.

57. The remedies for enforcing the aforesaid lien herein provided
shall not preclude any other remedies allowed by law for the enforcement