162 ARTICLE 1.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 1, sec. 191. 1860, Art. 1, sec. 101.

447. The receiver shall give bond in a penalty and with security ap-
proved by the court or judge, and shall be bound and held liable for every
default, negligence or malfeasance in office.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 1, sec. 192. 1860, Art, 1, sec. 102.

448. The receiver shall take charge of all the personal estate, goods,
chattels, property and effects of every description whatever, other than
real estate, of such individual, association or corporation, and collect and
make available the evidences of debt, and sell and dispose of, upon such
terms as the court shall direct, the goods and chattels, and pay off and
discharge the debts owing from such individual, association or corporation,
to the persons in their employ and the furnishers of raw material, or to
each a pro rata proportion of his claim; and there shall be no priority
or preference allowed in the payment of such claims, and no attachment,
mortgage, bond, deed, bill of sale, or deed of trust, or other lien, except
mechanics' lien, shall bind or operate as a lien on such property or debts
to the prejudice or disadvantage of the employees or furnishers of raw
materials as aforesaid; but the said claims, all and severally, shall be first
fully paid and discharged, or as far as the same can be done, before any
attachment, execution or any mortgage, bond or deed, bill of sale, deed
of trust or other lien (except mechanics' liens) shall bind, hold, operate
or take effect.

Everett v. State, 28 Md. 190. Hicks v. Consolidation Coal Co., 77 Md. 86.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 1, sec. 193. 1860, Art. 1, sec. 103.

449. Any sheriff or coroner who may have an execution or attachment
against the property of any such individual, association or corporation,
shall exempt from execution and levy a sufficiency of property to pay any
indebtedness of such individual, association or corporation, to employees
or furnishers of raw materials; and it shall be his duty diligently to in-
quire whether the said individual, association or corporation be indebted
as aforesaid; and if the employees or furnishers of raw materials shall
in any way suffer, be prejudiced or injured by refusal to comply with,
or negligence in executing the requirements hereof, the sheriff or coroner,
together with his sureties, shall be bound and held liable for whatever of
injury or damage shall be done in the premises in consequence of such
refusal or negligence.

Hicks v. Consolidation Coal Co., 77 Md. 86.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 1, sec. 194. 1884, ch. 427.

450. The period of employment of workingmen employed in and about
the mines of Allegany and Garrett Counties shall be ten hours per day,
said hours to be computed from the time of beginning said day's labor;
provided, that the time of beginning said day's labor shall be seven o'clock
A. M.; but nothing herein contained shall in any way preclude any work-
ingman in and about said mines from working a greater number of hours