Section  7.  Every  workman,  laborer,  or  other  person  who  shall  do  or
perform  any  work  or  labor,  by  virtue  of  any  contract  for  any  incorporated
company  doing  business  in  this  State,  shall  have  a  lien  for  the  value  of
such  work,  or  labor  upon  all  real  estate,  and  personal  property  of  com-
pany, and  such  lien  shall  have  priority  over  any  lien  created  by  deed  or
otherwise  on  such  real  estate  or  personal  property,  subsequent  to  the  time
when  the  said  labor  was  performed,  but  there  shall  be  no  priority  of  lien
as  between  the  parties  claiming  under  the  provisions  of  this  section.
Provided,  that  no  lien  shall  be  created  under  this  section  for  labor  per-
formed more  than  nine  months  before  such  lien  was  recorded.
Section  8.  Such  lien  shall  be  discharged  unless  the  person  desiring
to  avail  himself  thereof,  within  sixty  days  from  the  time  he  ceases  to
work  or  labor  for  such  incorporated  company,  shall  hie  with  the  clerk
of  the  county  court  of  the  county  in  which  such  work  or  labor  was  per-
formed, or  in  which  the  principal  office,  works,  real  estate  or  personal


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property  of  such  incorporated  company  la  situated,  a  just  and  true  account
of  *  the  amount  due  him  after  allowing  all  credits;  which  account  shall  be
sworn  to  by  the  person  claiming  them,  or  by  some  one  in  his  behalf.
Section  9.  The  clerk  of  the  county  court,  to  whom  such  account  is
presented,  shall  record  the  same  in  the  mechanics'  lien  record,  for  which
service  he  shall  receive  fifty  cents,  to  be  paid  by  the  person  claimin.
the  lien.
