896 LANDLORD AND TENANT. [ART. 53,

landlord, stating in dollars and cents the amount of rent claimed
to be due and in arrear, when the contract is for a certain money
rent; or a statement specifying the quantity or proportion of
produce agreed upon between the landlord and tenant as the rent
of the premises, when the distress is for grain or produce, to-
gether with an affidavit thereon in substance as required in the
preceding section.

Jean t>. Spurrier, 35 Md 110. Giles t. Ebsworth, 10 Md. 346.

P. G L., (1860,) art. 53, sec. 10. 1831, ch. 171, sec 2.

10. In all cases where land shall be rented in consideration of
a render of a portion of the crops raised upon the same, or for a.
specific amount of grain or other produce, and the tenant shall
fail to render such grain or produce according to the terms of the
contract, the landlord may levy a distress for the same.

Hoskins v. Rhodes, 1 G & J. 266. Byer v. Etnyre, 2 Gill, 151. Ferrall
v. Kent, 4 Gill, 209. Martin v. Martin, 7 Md 369. Mason v. Sumner, 22 Md,
315. Dailey v. Grimes, 27 Md 451

Ibid, sec 11. 1831, ch 171, sec. 2.

11. Where the distress is for grain or produce, the bailiff or
person authorized to levy said distress shall summon, and cause to-
be sworn, two disinterested persons, whose duty it shall be, under
the said oath, to estimate the money value of the specific amount
or quantity of grain, or other produce or proportion of the crops-
agreed upon as rent, and thereupon the bailiff or person aforesaid
shall proceed to levy the said distress as in ordinary cases of
money rent, taking such estimated value to be such money rent.

Ibid, sec 12. 1831, ch. 171, sec. 2.

12. The tenant whose goods are distrained under the preceding
section shall have his election at any time before the goods, chat-
tels, and property distrained shall be sold under such distress, to
deliver the rent of grain or other produce, or proportion of crops,
to the landlord, or to pay him the estimated vaiue, together in
both cases with the expenses of said distress; whereupon all pro-
ceedings in the said distress shall cease. But nothing herein con-
tained shall debar said tenant from any action of replevin for the
goods and chattels and property distrained as aforesaid, wherein