160 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 85]

to all the provisions of the Public Service Commission law of
Maryland and to all the powers and duties of the Public Service
Commission of Maryland which are or may be applicable to cor-
porations selling or supplying electric current for furnishing
light, heat or power, or exercising any other power, franchise or
franchises conferred by this act upon the said Youghiogbeny
Power Company.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1912.

CHAPTER 85.

AN ACT to make valid deeds, mortgages, bonds of conveyances,
bills of sale and all other conveyances of real and personal
property, or of any interest, defective in acknowledgment
or in the certificate thereof, or when the official character of
the officer taking the acknowledgment has not been certified
to, as required by the law, or when the conveyance has not
been witnessed and sealed.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Chapter 588 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland, session 1910, entitled "An Act to make valid deeds,
mortgages, bonds of conveyances, bills of sale and all other con-
veyances of. real and personal property, or of any interest,
defective in acknowledgment or in the certificate thereof, or
when the official character of the officer taking the acknowledg-
ment has not been certified to, as required by the law, or when
the conveyance has not been witnessed and sealed", be and the
same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
All deeds, mortgages, releases, bonds of conveyance, bills of
sale, chattel mortgages and all other conveyances of real or per-
sonal property, or of any interest therein which may have been
executed, acknowledged or recorded in the State subsequent to
the passage of the Act of the General Assembly of Maryland
passed at its January Session, 1858, Chapter 208, which may
not have been acknowledged according to the laws existing at
the time of said acknowledgment, or which may not have been
acknowledged before a proper officer, or when the certificate of
acknowledgment is not in the prescribed form or when the
official character of the officer taking the acknowledgment has
not been certified to as required by law, or where the convey-