ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                  847

which are plainly marked or tagged, stating who owns said
articles, not the property of the tenant or rented, hired or
loaned to the, tenant; vending or weighing machines designed
to receive coins or tokens, not the property of the tenant; and
every horse, carriage and harness, whip and robe, saddle and
bridle, or motor vehicle and appurtenances not the property of
the tenant, in any livery stable or garage, or which may be
stored with any keeper of any livery stable or garage or other
persons, or in any other place, outhouse or barn of the tenant;
and all property of any boarder or sojourner at any hotel,
tavern, public or private boarding house; and any vehicle not
the property of the tenant in any shop for repair; and the
goods and chattels of the innocent tenant who has paid his
rent to the owner of. the leasehold estate shall be exempt
from restraint for ground rent if any due and owing
to the ground rent landlord by the owner of the lease-
hold estate. Provided that if the landlord shall distrain
upon any goods, chattels, or other personal property on the
premises not exempt under this section, it shall be the duty of
the landlord, before a sale of such property shall be made
under such distraint proceedings (except in cases of personal
property in office buildings, in which cases there shall not be
such duty), to ascertain whether or not any such goods,,
chattels., or other personal property are being purchased by the
tenant under a conditional contract of sale defined in Section
55 of Article 21 of the 'Annotated Code of Public General
Laws of Maryland (1924), or mortgaged by the tenant by a
purchase money chattel mortgage under the terms of Sections
44 to 54, inclusive, of Article 21 of the Annotated Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland (1924), and if it shall be
found that any of such property is being purchased by the
tenant under such a conditional contract of sale or covered by
a. purchase money chattel mortgage executed by said tenant,
and if such additional contract of sale or mortgage shall have
been executed and recorded in accordance with the laws of the
State of Maryland governing the execution and recording of
such instruments, the landlord, except in cases of personal
property in office buildings, shall either release such property
from the distraint proceedings, or pay to the vendor named in
such conditional contract of sale or to the mortgagee in such
mortgage the balance due under such conditional contract of
sale or mortgage, and said balance, if paid, by the landlord,
shall become a part of the costs in such distraint proceedings;