ART. 21] MORTGAGES—BILLS OF SALE. 77

Mortgages.

1890, ch. 14. 1890. ch. 873.

39 A. Whenever any assignment or release of a mortgage, or
any release or assignment of an interest in any deed of trust is
made by a separate deed, or in any other mode than that pre-
scribed in sections 32, 34, 35 and 36 of this article, and whenever
any proceedings to foreclose a mortgage are had, or a sale under
any deed of trust is made, it shall be the duty of the clerks of the
circuit courts of the counties to enter in the margin of the record
of the original paper a memorandum of the place where such
deed of assignment or release, or proceedings of foreclosure, or
report of sale, as the case may be, is recorded; and the clerk
making such entry shall charge therefor the sum of twenty-five
cents, to be taxed as part of the fee for recording such assign-
ment or release, or as part of the costs of the case where there
has been a foreclosure of mortgage or sale under a deed of trust.
This section shall not apply to Baltimore city.

Bills of Sale.

1898, ch. 683.

42. A bill of sale or chattel mortgage, if acknowledged within
this State, may be acknowledged before any officer authorized to
take acknowledgments of deeds within this State in the same
manner as deeds are acknowledged, or acknowledged as certified.

Defective Conveyances.

1890, ch. 120.

82. All deeds, mortgages, bonds of conveyance and bills of
sale which have been executed and acknowledged, and are
recorded in this State subsequent to the passage of the act of the
General Assembly of Maryland, passed at the January session,
eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, chapter two hundred and eight,
which may not have been acknowledged according to the laws
existing at the time of said acknowledgment, or where the certifi-
cate of acknowledgment is not in the prescribed form, shall be
and the same are hereby made valid to all intents and purposes
as if the said acknowledgment and the certificate thereof had
been in legal form; provided, that said deeds, mortgages, bonds
of conveyance and bills of sale in other respects are in conformity