78 CORPORATIONS. [ART. 23

with the laws; and provided further, that nothing in this section
shall affect the interest of bona fide purchasers or creditors with-
out notice who may have become so previous to the enactment
of this section.

1898, ch. 49.

82 A. All mortgages and assignments of mortgages defectively
sworn to since the twenty-seventh day of March, in the year
eighteen hundred and ninety-six, before any officer authorized by
the laws of this State to administer oaths and take affidavits,
shall be as valid as if the same had been made in conformity
with law.

Conveyances and Devises Binding on Streets and Highways.

1892. ch. 684.

88. All devises, gifts, grants or conveyances of land in this
State, binding on any street or highway, or when any street or
highway shall be one or more of the lines thereof, shall be
construed to pass to the devisee, donee, or grantee therein,
all the right, title and interest of the devisor, donor or grantor
of the said land, to the centre of the street or highway on
which the same is located or binding as aforesaid, unless the
devisor, donor or grantor shall in express terms in the writing by
which the devise, gift or conveyance is made, reserve to himself
all the right, title and interest to the said street or highway.
Rieman v. Balto. Belt R. R. Co., 81 Md. 79.

ARTICLE XXIII.

CORPORATIONS.

Miscellaneous Provisions. 8. Corporation officers to give notice of intention to canvass votes. 11. Oath required before voting by proxy.

Provisions for the Formation of Corporations. 14. Class 1. Educational associa- tions and hospitals may hold property out of State.