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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

agents of such boats or vessels, for materials furn-
ished or work done in the building, repairing or
equipping the game.

Shall not be
entitled to lien.

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 ves-
sel, deliver to the Clerk of the Circuit Court fop
the county where the building, repairing, equip-
ping or refitting was done, or the Superior Court
of Baltimore city, if done in the city of Baltimore,
an account or statement certified by the oath of
the claimant, taken and subscribed before some
Justice of the Peace or other officer authorized to
administer an oath, getting forth the names of the
claimant and debtor, and if the debt was not con-
tracted by the owner, but by his agent, the name
of such agent, the name or other certain descrip-
tion of the boat or vessel, and the place where
built, repaired, equipped or re-fitted, and the par-
ticulars or items of the claim or debt.

Clerks of
courts to keep

a docket.

46. The Clerks of the several Circuit Courts for
the counties, and of the Superior Court of Balti-
more city, shall each keep a docket to be called
"Boats Lien Docket," wherein it shall be the duty
of each of said Clerks, upon application being made
to him in accordance with the requirements of the
preceding section, to record the said statements or
accounts filed with him, and, immediately there-
after, 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 de-
fendent and the day when such claim was filed and
the amount thereof, and the Clerk shall be enti-
tled to fifty cents for each entry, to be paid by the
defendant and taxed as costs against him, for which
and for other costs in prosecuting the claim, the
defendant shall be liable, the Clerk to be allowed
the same fees for recording said statement or ac-
count as are now allowed by law for recording-
deeds or bills of sale.

Lien for debt
and costs.

47. Every such boat 9r vessel against which an
an account or statement shall be filed under this
Article, shall be subject to a lien for the debt and
costs justly chargeable against it for two years from
the day on which the account or statement shall