LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1842

and no scire facias shall have issued thereon, it shall be
lawful for the owner of such building or any person invest-
ed thereon, to apply by petition to the court in which such
claim shall be filed, sitting forth the facts whereupon such
court may grant a rule upon the party claimant and others
interested to appear in court at a time to be fixed for such
purposes, and on the return of such rule may proceed in
like manner as if a scire facias had been issued by such
claimant, and had been duly served and returned.

CHAP. 184.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That all liens under this
act shall continue and be in force for the full end and term
of four years and no longer.

To continue
for four years.

SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That in every case in which
the amount of any claim in said Mechanic's lien book in
which such claim shall have been entered, or upon produ-
cing a receipt acknowledged by the claimant, before any
justice of the peace in the county in which the claim shall
have been recorded, the said recording clerk of the county
Court shall record the same, and in either case it shall for-
ever discharge said lien.

Receipt to
discharge lien.

SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act
contained, shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect
the right of any person to whom any debt may be due for
work done or materials furnished to maintain any personal
action against the owner of the building, or any other person
liable therefrom to recover the amount of said debts not
having a claim exceeding fifty dollars.

Not to impair
or affect other
claims, &c.

SEC. 15. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from and after the first day of April next.
SEC. 16. And be it enacted, That the clerk of the coun-
ty courts of Washington and Cecil counties, shall be enti-
tled to receive the same fees for recording liens under this
act as are now charged for other records.

To take effect
from 1st of
April.
Clerks to re-
ceive same as
for recording
other records.

CHAPTER 184.

An act to transfer the donation allowed to the Oakland
Academy, in Carroll County, to the Freedom Academy
in said County.

Passed March
4. 1842.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the annual donation of one hundred dollars, allowed
by the act of December session eighteen hundred and thir-
ty-nine, chapter one hundred and eleven, to the Oakland
Academy, in Carroll county, be and the same is hereby
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Fund transfer-
red to Free-
dom Academy