LANDLORD AND TENANT. 683

An. Code, 1924, sec. 24. 1912, sec. 23. 1904, sec. 23. 1888, sec. 23. 1868, ch. 292.
1870, ch. 279. 1876, ch. 384. 1884, ch. 67. 1886, ch. 182. 1935, ch. 130.

24. In all cases of renting land wherein a share of the growing crop
or crops shall he reserved as rent, or wherein advances by the landlord
have been made upon the faith of the crops to be grown, said rent reserved
and such advances made shall be a lien on such crop or crops, which shall
not be divested by any sale made thereof by the tenant, or by any adminis-
trator of a deceased tenant, or by the assignment of the tenant in in-
solvency, or by process of law issued against the tenant; provided, that at
the time of the said renting, the contract under and by which the said
advances are made shall be reduced to writing, duly attested and executed
by the said landlord and tenant. Provided, however, that before such
advances shall be a lien in Charles County the contract under which such
advances are made shall be recorded as other liens are recorded and the
Clerk of the Circuit Court for said county shall record and properly index
the same in a well bound book to be used solely for that purpose. The
provisions of this section shall only apply to the counties of St. Mary's,
Prince George's, Charles, Calvert and Worcester.
See notes to sec. 22.

1933, ch. 185.

24A. Whenever the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Regional
Agricultural Credit Corporations, the Secretary of Agriculture of the
United States, or any federal agency, including the United States of
America, now or hereafter authorized to lend money to agricultural pro-
ducers, or any National or State bank, trust company, agricultural credit
corporation, incorporated livestock loan company, savings institution, co-
operative bank, co-operative credit association, co-operative marketing
association, entitled to re-discount privileges with the Federal Inter-
mediate Credit Bank under the provisions of the Agricultural Credits
Act of one thousand nine hundred twenty-three of the United States, or
any person, firm or corporation, hereinafter designated as lienees, makes
advances either in money or supplies or other things of value to any per-
son, association, partnership or corporation engaged in or about to engage
in agricultural pursuits, such of the lienees so making such advances shall
have a lien; during such time as such advances remain unpaid on all of the
crops which may be planted or seeded or fruit crops maturing upon the
lands in or about the cultivation of which the advances so made have been
or were intended to be expended, after the making of such advances until
the repayment of such advances; but such of the lienees making such ad-
vances shall not have the benefit of a lien unless there is an agreement in
writing, signed by both parties, in which there is specified the amount
advanced, or a limit to be fixed, beyond which any advances, made from
time to time, within one year from the date of the agreement, shall not go,
and the said agreement shall contain a brief description of the land so
cultivated or to be cultivated; and said agreement shall be acknowledged
in the same manner as chattel mortgages and shall not be valid except as