990 MECHANICS' LIEN. [ART. 63.

work done or materials furnished to maintain any personal action
against the owner of the building, or any other person liable
therefor.
Andre v. Bodman, 13 Md 255.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 61, sec 43. 1838, ch. 205. 1841, ch. 85. 1841, ch. 76. 1843,
ch. 111. 1842, ch. 134. 1843, ch. 147. 1842, ch 183. 1844, ch. 226. 1845,
ch. 9. 1845, ch. 176. 1845, ch. 346. 1846, ch. 41. 1846, ch 290. 1846,
ch. 296 1846, ch. 312. 1847, ch 181. 1849, ch 449. 1853, ch. 445. 1867,
ch. 277. 1870, ch 92. 1882, ch. 462. 1884, ch. 345. 1886, ch. 53.
1888, ch. 64

43. The provisions of the preceding sections of this article
shall not apply to Charles county.

Ibid, sec 44. 1856, ch. 294, sec. 1. 1865, ch. 190.

44. All boats or vessels of any kind whatsoever, used or in-
tended to be 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 per-
sons, from the owners, masters or captains, or other agents of such
boats or vessels, for materials furnished or work done in the
building, repairing or equipping the same.

Ibid. sec. 45. 1856, ch. 294, sec. 1. 1865, ch 190.

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 of 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 clerk of the superior court of Baltimore city, if done in the
city of Baltimore, an account or statement verified by the oath of
the claimant, taken and subscribed before some justice of the
peace or other officer authorized 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.