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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

directed and required annually, on the first day of October

State's assist-

in each and every year, after receiving such certificate, to issue

ance.

his warrant on the Treasurer of said State for the payment

of the said sum of five hundred dollars to the said Board

of County School Commissioners for the use and benefit of

said high school.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 22, 1904.

CHAPTER 123.

AN ACT to make valid deeds, mortgages, bonds of convey-

ance and bills of sale defective in the acknowledgment

or in the certificate thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That Section 3 of the Acts of the General Assembly

of Maryland, Session of 1900, entitled "An Act to make

valid deeds, mortgages, bonds of conveyance and bills of

sale defective in the acknowledgment or in the certificate there-

of," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as

to read as follows :

82. All deeds, mortgages, releases, bonds of conveyance,

Deeds, mort-

bills of sale, chattel mortgage and all other conveyances of

gages, etc.

real or personal property, or of any interest therein, which

have been extended, acknowledged or recorded in the State

subsequent to the passage of the Act of the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, passed at the January Session, 1858, Chap-

ter 208, which may not have been acknowledged according

to the laws existing at the time of said acknowledgment, or

when the certificate of acknowledgment is not in the pre-

scribed form, or where the official character of the officer

Conveyance to

taking the acknowledgment has not been certified to as re-

be valid.

quired by law or where the conveyance has not been wit-

nessed, as required by law, shall be and the same are hereby

made valid to all intents and purposes, as if the said convey-

ance had been acknowledged, certified to and witnessed ac-

cording to law.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 22, 1904.