Chap. 82.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the Ist and 21 sections of
an act approved March 21, 1877, entitled an act to secure the pay-
ment of the wages or se Jaries to certain employees of ratiway, canal,
steamboat and olier transportation COMpliles.

Approved April 2, 1879.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That hereafter all
conductors, brakesinen, engine-drivers, firemen, captains, stew-
ards, pilots, clerks, depot or office agents, store-keepers, me-
chanics, or laborers, and all persons furnishing railroad iron,
engines, cars, fuel, ane all other supplies necessary for the
operation of any railway, canal, or olhor transportation com-
pany, or of any Mining or manufacturing company, chartered
under or by the laws of this state, or doing business within its
limits, shall have a prior lien on the franchise, the gross earn-
ings, and on ali the real and personal, property of said company
which is used in operating the same, to the extent of the inonevs
due them by said company for such wages or supplies; and no
mortgage, a@eed of trust, sale, conveyance or bypothecation
hereafter executed of said property, shall defeat or take prece-
dence over said lien; but it is expressly provided that the liens
of the employees and officials aforesaid, shall be prior to that
of all other liens whatsoever, and shall be the first discharged.

2, Any person enlitled to the benefit of the lien aforesaid.
shali forfeit the same unless he shall file a memorandum with
the clerk of the county or corporation court, under affidavit.
according to his best knowledge and belief, stating the amount
and justice of his claim, within six months after the same shall
have fallen due; and the said clerk shall forthwith record the
said memorandum in the deed book, and index the same by the
name of the person filing the same, and also in the name of
the corporation agaiast which the claim is. And it is provided
also that it shall, in all cases, be sufficient for the claimant to
filethe memorandum aforesaid with the clerk of the court wherein
deeds may be recordel in the county or corporation wherein
the chief office of the corporation against which the claim may
be is located.

3. This act shall be tn force from its passage.