E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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SEC. 7. And be it enacted,
That the act passed at
December session, eighteen hundred and forty-four,
chapter three hundred and two, entitled an act taxing
certain officers, and the act passed at December session,
eighteen hundred and forty-six, chapter two hundred
and fifty-three, entitled, a supplement to the act entitled,
an act taxing certain officers, passed at December session,
eighteen hundred and forty-four, chapter three
hundred and two, which acts impose taxes on the clerks
and registers therein mentioned, be and the same are
hereby repealed.
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Act of
1844,
ch. 302, repealed.
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SEC. 8. And be it enacted,
That this act, so far
as it relates to the register of the Court of Chancery,
shall take effect from the first day of November, eighteen
hundred and fifty-two.
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In force.
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CHAPTER 445.
AN ACT for the protection of Mechanics and others
in Dorchester and Talbot
counties.
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Passed May
30, 1853.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That every building erected in Dorchester
and Talbot counties shall be subject to a lien for
payment of all debts contracted for work done, or materials
furnished for, or about the erection or construction
of the same; Provided, that no lien shall attach
or take effect in any case whatever, where materials or
supplies shall be furnished to any contractor, who may
have contracted with the owner of said building for
erecting the same in whole or in part for a specified
sum.
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Buildings subject
to a lien.
Proviso.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted,
That the lien of such
debts shall extend to the ground covered by such buildings,
and to so much other ground immediately adjacent
thereto, and belonging in like manner to the owner of
such building, as may be necessary for the ordinary
and useful purpose of such buildings.
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Lien to extend
to ground.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted,
That every person entitled
to such lien shall file a claim or statement of his
demand in the office of the clerk of said circuit court,
whose duty it shall be to keep a book or docket which
shall be called the mechanics lien docket, in which he
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Claim to be
filed.
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