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laborers or other persons shall have a lien on said article or
articles for cost of repairs, work on and material put on or in
such article. If one year after the completion of repairs,
work on or material put on or in such article the indebtedness
or any part thereof remains unpaid and owing, such artisans,
tradesmen, mechanics, laborers or other persons may after
one month's notice in writing to the owner of such article or
articles notifying such owner of the amount due, by mailing
such notice directed to the owner's last known address, or if
the owner be unknown, by written or printed notice set up at
the Court House door of the county or City of Baltimore or
by publication once a week for two successive weeks in a news-
paper of general circulation published in the city or county
in which said work has been done and the bill remains unpaid,
sell such article or articles at public or private sale to satisfy
such claim, and the proceeds after paying expenses of such
sale, be applied in liquidation of such indebtedness, and the
balance, if any, be paid over to such debtor.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1943.

Approved May 4, 1943.

CHAPTER 534.
(House Bill 464)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Chapter
430 of the Acts of 1912 of the General Assembly of Mary-
land, directing the Governor to appoint, under certain con-
ditions, policemen for the protection of the property and
premises of the Springfield State Hospital and for the preser-
vation <)f order on and in the general vicinity thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Chapter 430 of the Acts of 1912 of the General As-
sembly of Maryland, be and it is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

1. The Governor is hereby directed to commission such per-
sons, not exceeding two, who may be selected by him either in
his discretion or from persons designated to him by the Board
of Managers of the Springfield State Hospital, for the protec-
tion of the property and premises of the Springfield State
Hospital and the preservation of the peace and good order
on and in the general vicinity of such property and premises.