ART. 67. ] LIENS OF MECHANICS AND OTHERS.

701

that the amount of the claim or lien filed shall not in any case be en-
larged.

PERSONAL ACTIONS.

maybe
amended.

42. Nothing contained in this article relating to Liens of Me-
chanics and others, shall be construed to affect the right of any
person, to whom any debt may be due, for work done, or materials
furnished, to maintain any personal action against the owner of the
building, or any other person liable therefor.

Id 8 42
1838, c 205, s 20
Right of per-
sonal action
saved
13 Md 255.

43. The provisions of the preceding section of this article shall
not apply to Kent, Charles, Calvert, or St. Mary's counties.

LIENS AGAINST BOATS AND VESSELS

1870, c 92
To what coun-
ties not to
apply

44. All boats or vessels of any kind whatsoever, used or in-
tended to he used on the waters of the Chesapeake bay and its
tributaries, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and other waters of this
State, as carriers of freight or passengers, and all other boats or
vessels belonging in this State shall be subject to a lien and bound
for the payment thereof, as preferred debts, for all debts due to
boat builders, mechanics, merchants, farmers, or other persons, from
the owners, masters, or captains, or other agents of such boats or
vessels, for materials furnished or work done in the building, re-
pairing, or equipping the same.

1865, c 190
What boats and
vessels subject
to lien, and for
what debts

45. No person shall be entitled to a lien under the preceding
section, unless he shall within six months from the commencement
of the building, repairing, equipping, or refitting such boat or vessel,
deliver to the clerk of the Circuit Court for the county where the
building, repairing, equipping, or refitting was done, or the Superior
Court of Baltimore City, if done in the city of Baltimore, an ac-
count or statement, certified by the oath of the claimant, taken and
subscribed before some justice of the peace or other officer au-
thorized to administer an oath, setting forth the names of the
claimant and debtor, and if the debt was not contracted by the
owner, but by his agent, the name of such agent, the name or other
certain description of the boat or vessel, and the place where built,
repaired, equipped, or refitted, and the particulars or items of the
claim or debt

1865, c. 190
How such lien
acquired

46. The clerks of the several Circuit Courts for the counties,
and of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, shall each keep a
docket, to be called boats' hen docket, wherein it shall be the duty
of each of said clerks, upon application being made to him in ac-
cordance with the requirements of the preceding section, to record

1805, c 190
Boats' lien
docket

the said statements or accounts filed with him, and, immediately
thereafter, he shall docket a case between the parties to the claim,
entering the claimant as plaintiff, and the boat and its owner and
the owner's agent, where the debt was contracted by an agent, as
defendant, and the day when such claim was filed and the amount

What it shall
contain

thereof, and the clerk shall be entitled to fifty cents for each entry,

Clerk's fees.