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to be fixed, beyond which any advances, made from time
to time, within one year from the date of the agreement,
shall not go, and the said agreement shall contain a brief
description of the land so cultivated or to be cultivated;
and said agreement shall be acknowledged in the same
manner as chattel mortgages and shall not be valid except
as between the parties unless such of the lienees so making
the advances or its agent shall make an affidavit that the
consideration in said agreement is true and bona fide as
therein set forth; and the said agreement may be recorded
in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for the county
in which the land upon which said crops shall be planted
or intended to be planted, is situate; and if said land lies
in more than one county, then said agreement may be re-
corded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for
each of the counties in which said land lies; and the respec-
tive clerks in whose offices shall be filed all such agree-
ments, shall record and properly index the same in a well-
bound book to be used for that purpose, and, when so re-
corded, the same shall be deemed sufficient to give construc-
tive notice of said lien, to all persons, including purchasers
of said crops and creditors, of said lienor, and for such
recordation said clerk shall be entitled to charge and re-
ceive for recording each crop lien agreement a fee of not
more than one ($1. 00) dollar; provided, however, that the
liens now given to landlords under Section 24 of this Ar-
ticle or under any existing law, shall not be affected by this
section; and provided further that in the event of a sale,
under a mortgage or deed of trust executed and recorded
after the effective date hereof, of the land upon which any
such crop has been so seeded and/or may be growing and
before said crop has been gathered or harvested, such sale
shall be made subject to the said crop lien, and the rights
of the lienee shall be protected in the same manner and to
the same extent as the rights of the debtor would be pro-
tected under analagous circumstances under the provisions
of Sections 26, 27 and 28 of Article 66 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland.

For the purpose of showing the release, of any crop lien
agreement, the receipt of the lienee making the advances
evidencing the payment of same by the borrower or lienor
shall, on presentation, be recorded by the clerk of the court
where the said agreement is recorded.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in so far as the
provisions of this Act may conflict with other Acts or parts
thereof, the provisions of this Act shall control.