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loom or sewing machine, which may be loaned or
hired to the tenant; and every horse, carriage, and
harness, whip and robe, in any livery stable, or which
may be at livery or stored with any keeper of any
livery stable, 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 repairs, every stove, every
piano or other musical instrument, rented or hired or
loaned to the tenant, where the contract of renting or
hiring or lending is in writing, signed by the parties
thereto, and acknowledged before a justice of the peace
of the county or city wherein the parties reside, and
the justice shall enter upon his docket the substance
of the contract, and that the parties acknowledge the
same.

In force and approved March 20, 1868.

1868, c. 292 adds the following section to this article to follow section 21:

22. In all cases of renting lands, wherein a share of the growing crop or crops shall be reserved as rent, said rent reserved shall be a lien on such crop or crops, which shall not be diverted by any sale made thereof by the tenant, or by the assignment of the tenant in bankruptcy or insolvency, or by the process of law issued against the tenant. In force and approved March 30, 1868.

1868, c. 292. When rent a hen on crops.