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An. Code, 1924, sec. 18. 1912, sec. 17. 1904, sec. 17. 1888, sec. 17. 1813, ch. 135.

1816, ch. 210, sec. 1. 1823, ch. 151. 1834, ch 180, sec. 1. 1868, ch. 173.

1870, ch. 169. 1884, ch. 310. 1904, ch. 568. 1908, ch. 93.

1927, ch. 699. 1929, ch. 148.

18. The following property shall be exempt from distress for rent, to
wit: Every spinning-wheel, loom, sewing machine, typewriter, stove, cash
register, piano, organ, or other musical instrument, not the property of the
tenant or rented, hired or loaned to the tenant; and telephone instruments,
telephone booths and other telephone equipment not the property of the
tenant; vending or weighing machines designed to receive coins or tokens,
not the property of the tenant; and every horse, carriage and harness, whip
and robe, saddle and bridle, or motor vehicle and appurtenances not the
property of the tenant, in any livery stable or garage, or which may be
stored with any keeper of any livery stable or garage or other persons, or
in any other place, outhouse or barn of the tenant; and all property of
any boarder or sojourner at any hotel, tavern, public or private boarding
house; and any vehicle not the property of the tenant in any shop for re-
pair; and the goods and chattels of the innocent tenant who has paid his
rent to the owner of the leasehold estate shall be exempt from distraint
for ground rent if any due and owing to the ground rent landlord by the
owner of the leasehold estate. Provided that, in the City of Baltimore,
if the landlord shall distrain upon any goods, chattels, or other personal
property on the premises not exempt under this section, it shall be the
duty of the landlord, before a sale of such property shall be made under
such distraint proceedings (except in cases of personal property in office
buildings, in which cases there shall not be such duty), to ascertain
whether or not any such goods, chattels, or other personal property are be-
ing purchased by the tenant under a conditional contract of sale defined in
Section 55 of Article 21 of the Annotated Code of Public General Laws
of Maryland (1924), or mortgaged by the tenant by a purchase money
chattel mortgage under the terms of Sections 44 to 54, inclusive, of Article
21 of the Annotated Code of Public General Laws of Maryland (1924),
and if it shall be found that any of such property is being purchased by
the tenant under such a conditional contract of sale or covered by a pur-
chase money chattel mortgage executed by said tenant, and if such addi-
tional contract of sale or mortgage shall have been executed and recorded
in accordance with the laws of the State of Maryland governing the execu-
tion and recording of such instruments, the landlord, except in cases of
personal property in office buildings, shall either release such property
from the distraint proceedings or pay to the vendor named in such condi-
tional contract of sale or to the mortgagee in such mortgage the balance
due under such conditional contract of sale or mortgage, and said balance,
if paid, by the landlord, shall become a part of the costs in such distraint
proceedings; and be collectible in the same manner as are the other costs in
such proceedings; and provided further that such vendor or mortgagee shall
render, upon demand by the landlord, a true statement of the balance due
under such conditional contract of sale or mortgage, and when said balance