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payment of the costs, shall enter satisfaction on the record
of such claim in the office of the clerk of the circuit court
for the county or circuit court of Baltimore City, as
the case may be, which shall forever discharge and
release the same.

44. 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, repair-
ing, equipping or refitting was done, or the clerk of the
circuit 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 admin-
ister 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 particu-
lars or items of the claim or debt; and which account or
statement shall be re-delivered by such clerk to the party
filing the same after it has been recorded as provided in
section 45.

45. The clerks of the several circuit courts for the
counties and of the circuit court of Baltimore 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
thereafter, 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 defendant, and the day when
such claim was filed, and the amount thereof; and the
clerk shall be entitled 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, in case the lien be established;
the clerk to be allowed the same fees for recording said
statement or account as are now allowed for recording deeds
or bills of sale.

48. The claimant under such lien 011 any boat or vessel
may enforce the same by proceedings in equity according
to the provisions of section 24 of this article.