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ing notice of the time, place and terms of sale by advertisement published
at least twice in one or more newspapers published in the city or county
wherein the said hotel, inn or ordinary is situated, the first publication to
be not less than ten days before such sale, and the proceeds of sale to be
applied, after payment of expenses, to the discharge of such indebtedness,
and the balance, if any, to be paid over to the person or persons entitled
thereto.

An. Code, sec. 8. 1904, sec. 8. 1892, ch. 590, sec. 1.

8. Any person taking boarders or lodgers into his house and renting
to them a room or furnishing them with board or both shall have a lien
upon any personal effects, goods or furniture brought upon the premises
in pursuance of such contracting for room or board, and it shall be lawful
to take and retain possession of the same until such board or lodging shall
have been fully paid for whether due or not; and such personal effects,
goods and furniture, may be sold, upon reasonable notice of not less than
ten days after the debt for such board or lodging shall have become due
and payable, at either public or private sale to satisfy such debt, the pro-
ceeds after paying expenses of such sale to be applied in liquidation of
such indebtedness, and the balance if any paid over to such debtor.

An. Code, sec. 9. 1904, sec. 9. 1892, ch. 590, sec. 2.

9. A married woman may as landlady and proprietress contract with
any one entering her house for board or lodging or both, and have and
pursue the legal remedies given in section 8 the same as if she were a
feme sole, and shall further have and enjoy all the powers, rights and
remedies with respect to the renting, keeping and conducting of such board-
ing or lodging house as if she were a feme sole, and it shall not be neces-
sary for her husband to join in any contract with reference thereto.
Cited but not construed in Lyell v. Walbach, 113 Md. 578.