Michigan.-Lien also given for the construction, alteration, and fitting of an article of personal property. Minnesota. The same as California, above. North Carolina.-The same as California, above. Virginia.-Lien also given for the alteration of an article of personal property. OTHER LIEN ACTS. (In addition to the so-called mechanic's lien acts, in the statutes of the various States and Territories, there exist numerous other acts giving liens. These liens are classified below.) ◄ OF THE LIEN. [See notes, pp. 22-27.] In the States and Territories noted below a lien is given for work and labor performed or for materials furnished in the construction, repair, manufacture, production, etc., of— Articles of any kind: Alabama. Bricks: Maine. Bridges: Nebraska. Canals: Kentucky, Nebraska, Ohio, Virginia. Crops: Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Washington. Engines: California. Forest products: California, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin. Granite Maine. Horse power: California. Implements: Alabama. Land: Arkansas, Ohio. Lime and lime rock: Maine. Machines: Alabama. Manufacturing and mining companies: Virginia. Mines: Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Wyoming. Plank roads: Ohio. Property: Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee. Public corporations: Iowa. Public improvements: Kentucky. Public money belonging to cities: New York. Public structures: Ohio. Railroads: Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin. Slate Maine. Tanks: New York. Thrashing machines: California, North Dakota. Transportation companies: Virginia. Turnpikes: Kentucky, Ohio. Vehicles: Alabama, California. Vessels: Alabama, California. Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin. Viaducts: Nebraska. Wells: New York, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming. NOTES. The limitations or modifications operative in the States and Territories are as follows: ARTICLES OF ANY KIND. Alabama.-Lien given for the construction or repair, and the right to the same is confined to blacksmiths, wood workmen, or other mechanics. BRICKS. Maine.-Lien given for manufacturing and burning. Wood is the only material for the furnishing of which the lien is given. BRIDGES. Nebraska.-Lien given for the construction, repair, or equipment, and also attaches to the land on which situated, and to its erections, excavations, embankments, etc., thereon. CANALS. Kentucky.-Lien given for the construction and improvement, and for teams furnished, as well as for labor and materials. Nebraska.-Lien given for the construction, repair, or equipment, and also attaches to the right of way, the land on which situated, and the erections, excavations, embankments, and bridges thereon. Ohio.-Lien given for the construction of canals or any abutment, pier, culvert, foundation, embankment, or excavation, and attaches to all property of the canal on which work was done. Virginia.-Lien also attaches to the franchises, gross earnings, and all real and personal property belonging to the company, and is given for services rendered as well as for labor and materials furnished. CROPS. Alabama.-Only laborers working on shares entitled. Arkansas.-Lien given only for labor under a contract, written or verbal. Idaho.-Lien given only for labor in tilling farm or lands, or in harvesting, cultivating, or tilling crops. Louisiana.-Only overseers and laborers entitled for salaries and wages. Mississippi.-Lien given only for labor in making, gathering, and preparing for sale or market. South Carolina.—Only laborers entitled for wages, share of crop, or other valuable consideration. Tennessee.-Lien given only for labor in cultivating the soil. Washington.-Lien given only for labor in tilling, sowing, housing, or har vesting. ENGINES. California.-Lien given only for labor, and attaches to appurtenances. FOREST PRODUCTS. California.-Lien is given on logs and lumber, and only for labor in cutting, hauling, rafting, and driving the same, and in transporting and getting them out of camp. Louisiana.-Lien given only for labor in manufacturing lumber, shingles, and similar material, in deadening, filling, cutting, hauling, barking, driving, running, rafting, or booming logs, timber, and staves, and for cooking for those engaged as above. Maine.-Lien given only for labor (personal services and services of team) in cutting, peeling, or yarding hemlock bark; in cutting cord wood; in cutting, hauling, rafting, or driving logs and lumber; in manufacturing last blocks, and in cutting or furnishing wood for same; and in making railroad ties and ship knees. Lien is also given for labor in cooking for persons engaged as above. Michigan.-Lien given only for labor in manufacturing lumber and shingles, and in cutting, skidding, hauling, scaling, banking, driving, running, rafting, or booming logs, cedar posts, cord wood, pulp wood, hop poles, hoop poles, telegraph poles, railroad ties, bark, shingles, bolts, stave bolts, staves, veneering, and wood, or other forest products. Cooks are expressly entitled to the above lien. Minnesota.-Lien given only for labor or services in cutting, falling, hauling, driving, running, rafting, booming, cribbing, or towing logs or timber on the St. Croix Lake or river or their tributaries, and for manual labor in cutting, banking, driving, rafting, cribbing, or towing logs, timber, and railroad ties. Only laborers for hire are entitled to the lien. Nevada.-Lien given only for labor in cutting or cording wood or timber. New Hampshire.-Lien given only for a claim for labor or supplies furnished, in amount $15 or more, in rafting, cutting, hauling, or drawing wood, bark, lumber, or logs, and in cooking for those so engaged or in hauling supplies. Oregon.-Lien given only for labor in cutting and manufacturing logs and timber. Pennsylvania.-Lien given only for labor in cutting, peeling, skidding, and hauling sawed logs, squared timber, and lumber in Centre County. Vermont.-Lien given only for labor in cutting and drawing logs. Washington.-Lien given only for labor upon or in obtaining or securing spars, piles, or other timber, and on lumber for making saw logs into same. Wisconsin.-Lien given only for labor in cutting, felling, hauling, running, driving, rafting, booming, cribbing, towing, sawing, peeling, or manufacturing into lumber, logs, timber, cord wood, railroad ties, tan and other barks, piling, telegraph poles, fence posts, paving timber, stave bolts, and staves. Lien is also given for labor in cooking for those engaged as above. GRANITE. Maine.-Lien given only for labor in quarrying, cutting, and dressing. HORSE POWER. California.-Lien given only for labor, and attaches to appurtenances. IMPLEMENTS. Alabama.-Lien given for the construction or repair, and the right to the same is confined to blacksmiths, woodworkmen, or other mechanics. LAND. Arkansas.-Lien given only for labor under a contract, written or verbal. Ohio.-Lien is given on the land adjacent to streets, turnpikes, roads, sidewalks, ways, drains, ditches, or sewers for altering or repairing the same under contract with owner of the land. LIME AND LIME ROCK. Maine.-Lien is given for digging, hauling, and furnishing Jime rock. MACHINES. Alabama.-Lien given for the construction or repair, and the right to the same is confined to blacksmiths, wood workmen, or other mechanics. MANUFACTURING AND MINING COMPANIES. Virginia.-Lien also attaches to the franchises, gross earnings, and all real and personal property belonging to the company, and is given for services rendered as well as for labor and materials furnished. MINES. Indiana.-Lien given only for labor performed in a coal mine, within two months of the attachment of the lien, and attaches to machinery, fixtures, scales, coal bank cars, and everything used about the mine. Iowa.-Lien given to miners and laborers only for labor in opening and developing coal mines, sinking shafts, constructing slopes and drifts, mining coal, etc., and attaches to all property of persons, firms, and corporations owning, corstructing, or operating a coal mine, to the real estate, buildings, engines, cars, mules, scales, and all other personal property. Michigan.-Lien attaches to all property, real or personal, of corporations for mining, smelting, or manufacturing ores of all kinds in the Upper Peninsula of the State, and is given only for labor. North Dakota.-The same as Indiana above. South Dakota.-The lien attaches to lodes, leads, ledges, mines, deposits, banks, or tunnels of gold, cinnabar, or copper; to coal banks or mines, and to iron and lead mines, and is given only for furnishing labor, timber, rope, nails, or other materials for timbering, any materials for erecting any windlass, whim or hoisting apparatus or machinery, or any materials for car tracks, cars, tunnels, drifts, or openings. Wisconsin.-Lien attaches to all the personal estate, including ores and products, to the machinery, and to the real estate connected with the business of per sons or corporations engaged in or organized for mining, smelting, or manufac turing iron, copper, silver, or other ores or minerals. Lien is given only for labor or services. -- Wyoming. The lien attaches to ledges and lodes of quartz bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, or copper; to coal banks or mines, and to iron or other mines, and is given only for furnishing labor, rope, nails, lumber, or other materials for timbering shafts or levels, or for erecting a windlass, whim, or other hoisting apparatus. PLANK ROADS. Ohio.-Lien given only for labor (common or mechanical) and supplies furnished in the construction of the plank road or any abutment, culvert, foundation, embankment, or excavation connected with the same, and attaches to all the property belonging to the company. PROPERTY. Arkansas.-Lien given only for labor under a contract, written or verbal. Georgia.-Lien attaches to all property of employers and is given only to laborers for labor. Indiana.-Lien attaches to the corporate property of corporations and to their earnings, and is given only to employés for labor. Ohio.-Lien attaches to real property only, and is given only to laborers (agricultural, mining, manufacturing, or manual) for wages. Tennessee.-Lien attaches to all property, real and personal, or corporations or firms, and is given only for labor and services, and wages or compensation in arrears, and unpaid for three months. PUBLIC CORPORATIONS. Iowa.-Lien is given only to mechanics, laborers, and others, acting as subcontractors, for the construction of a bridge, public building, or other improvement, being constructed by a public corporation, and not belonging to the State. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. Kentucky.-Lien given for the construction and improvement, and for teams furnished, as well as for labor and materials. PUBLIC MONEY BELONGING TO CITIES. New York.-Lien attaches to public money in control of, or due, or to become due, to a city, and is given for labor or materials furnished in performing any contract with a city. PUBLIC STRUCTURES. Ohio.-Lien is given only for labor (common or mechanical) and supplies furnished in the construction, and attaches to all property connected with the public structure on which work was done. RAILROADS. Alabama.-Lien is given only for work and labor, and attaches to all the property, rights, effects, and credits of the railroad company. Arkansas.-Lien is given for building, equipping, and operating the railroad, and attaches to the roadbed, buildings, equipment, income, franchises, and all appurtenances of the same. It is given for fixtures and machinery furnished, as well as for labor and materials. Illinois.-Lien is given for the construction, maintenance, operation, or repair of the railroad, and attaches to all the real, personal, and mixed property of the same. It is given for fuel, ties, supplies, and any necessary article or thing furnished, as well as for labor or materials. Kentucky.-Lien given for the construction and improvement and for teams furnished, as well as for labor and materials. Missouri.-Lien is given for the construction or improvement of the railroad, its roadbed, station houses, rolling stock, depots, bridges, or culverts, and attaches to the roadbed, station houses, depots, bridges, rolling stock, real estate, and improvements of the railroad. It is given for ties, fuel, and bridges furnished, as well as for labor and materials. Nebraska.-Lien is given for the construction, repair, or equipment of the railroad, and attaches to the erections, excavations, embankments, bridges, roadbed, rolling stock, right of way, and the land on which situated. New Hampshire.-Lien is given for grading, building masonry, bridging or LABOR LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES. track-laying, and extends to the land on which the railroad is constructed. To entitle to lien the claim must amount to $15 or more. New York.-The lien is given only for labor performed for a railroad corporation, and attaches to the interest of the railroad in the land on which it is situated, and the tracks, rolling stock, and appurtenances of the same. Ohio.-Lien is given for the construction of railroads, depots, buildings, water tanks, or any part of a railroad; for boarding furnished to employés on order of a contractor or subcontractor; for grain, hay, tools, implements, or merchandise furnished, and for repairing tools or implements on order of a contractor or subcontractor. By another act a lien on a railroad is given for labor (common or mechanical) and supplies furnished in constructing railroads, abutments, culverts, foundations, side tracks, embankments, excavations, and for protecting, ballasting, delivering, or placing ties, and for track-laying. This lien attaches to all the property of the railroad on which work was done. Oregon.-Lien is given for ties, supplies, or other thing furnished, as well as for labor or materials, and attaches to all the property of a railroad, real, personal or mixed. Original contractors not entitled. Tennessee.-Lien is given for grading roadway, constructing and repairing culverts and bridges, laying tracks, erecting depots, platforms, wood or water stations, section houses, machine shops, or other buildings, for furnishing crossties, for delivering material for any of the above purposes, and for engineering or superintendence. Texas.-Lien given only for labor, with tools, teams, or otherwise, in constructing, operating, or repairing a railroad, locomotive, car, or other equipment, and attaches to the equipments of the railroad. Virginia.-Lien is given for railroad iron, engines, cars, fuel, and other supplies furnished, as well as for labor and materials, and attaches to the franchises, gross earnings, and all real and personal property of the railroad. Wisconsin.-Lien given only for wages of laborers due from contractor or subcontractor, for manual or team labor, and attaches to all property of the railroad corporation. SLATE. Maine.-Lien given only for wages of labor in mining, quarrying, or manufacturing. TANKS. New York.-Lien given for erecting, building, or furnishing a tank or other receptacle for oil, gas, or water, and attaches also to the owner's interest in the lot, premises, parcel, or farm of land upon which the same is situated. THRASHING MACHINES. California.-Lien given only for labor, and attaches to appurtenances. North Dakota.-Lien is given for machinery or fixtures furnished as well as for labor and materials. TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES. Virginia.-Lien also attaches to the franchises, gross earnings, and all real and personal property belonging to the company, and is given for services rendered as well as for labor and materials furnished. TURNPIKES. Kentucky.-Lien given for the construction and improvement, and for teams furnished as well as for labor and materials. Ohio.-Lien given only for labor (common or mechanical) and supplies furnished in the construction of the turnpike or any abutment, culvert, foundation, embankment, or excavation connected with the same, and attaches to all the property belonging to the company. VEHICLES. Alabama.-Lien given for the construction or repair, and the same is confined to blacksmiths, wood workmen, or other mechanics. California.-Lien given only for labor, and attaches to appurtenances. VESSELS. Alabama.-Lien is given on ships, steamboats, or other watercraft for labor or materials furnished in building, repairing, fitting, furnishing, supplying, and victualing, and for wages, for services on board, of masters, laborers, stevedores, and ship-keepers. |