WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 11

having been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-
fifths of all of the members elected to each of the two Houses
of the General Assembly, the same shall take effect from the
date of its passage.

Approved February 14, 1947.

CHAPTER 12.
(House Bill 4)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 102,
103 and 107 of Article 21 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1943 Supplement), title "Conveyancing", sub-title "De-
fective Conveyances", as said sections were amended by
Chapter 168 of 1945, to make valid deeds, mortgages, bonds
of conveyances, bills of sale, and all other conveyances of
real and personal property, or of any interest therein or
agreements relating thereto, defective in acknowledgment
or in the certificate thereof, or when the official character
of the officer taking the acknowledgment has not been
stated in the body of the certificate or certified to, as re-
quired by law, or when the conveyance or agreement has
not been witnessed or sealed, or when any deed heretofore
made to or from a corporation prior to the payment of
bonus tax which was afterwards paid, or any mortgage
or assignment of mortgage defectively sworn to or not
sworn to at all.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 102, 103 and 107 of Article 21 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1943 Supplement), title "Con-
veyancing", sub-title "Defective Conveyances", as said sections
were amended by Chapter 16'8 of 1945, be and they are here-
by repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as ,
follows:

102. All deeds of conveyance of property in this State which
may have been recorded without any certificate of the
clerk of any of the courts of this State accompanying the
acknowledgment thereof, in cases in which such certificates
are necessary and proper, certifying to the official character
and signature of the Justice of the Peace taking the same,
and all deeds of conveyance of property in this State which
may have been recorded without the seal of the notary public
before whom the acknowledgment was taken, having been