Marvin Mandel, Governor                       1323

[34.

All boats or vessels of any kind whatsoever used or intended to be
used on the waters of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal, and other waters of this State, as car-
riers of freight or passengers, and all other boats or vessels belong-
ing in this State shall be subject to a lien and bound for the payment
thereof as preferred debts for all debts due to boat builders,
mechanics, merchants, farmers or other persons, from the owners,
masters or captains, or other agents of such boats or vessels for
materials furnished or work done in the building, repairing or
equipping the same, or for providing storage or dockage for any such
boat or vessel.

35.

No person shall be entitled to a lien under Section 34 unless he
shall, within six months from the commencement of the building,
repairing, equipping or refitting or the providing of dockage and
storage of such boat or vessel, deliver to the clerk of the circuit court
for the county where the building, repairing, equipping or refitting
was done, or the boat was stored or docked or the clerk of the Cir-
cuit 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 author-
ized to administer 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 de-
scription of the boat or vessel and the place where built, repaired,
equipped, refitted, stored or docked and the particulars or items of
the claim or debt; and which account or statement shall be rede-
livered by such clerk to the party filing the same after it has been
recorded as provided in Section 36.

36.

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 Section 35, 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 en-
titled 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 prose-
cuting 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.

37.

Every such boat or vessel against which an account or statement
shall be filed under this article shall be subject to a lien for the debt
and cost justly chargeable against it for two years from the day on
which the account or statement shall be filed and no longer; but the