12 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 12

first attached, when the grantor resided in another State,
and the acknowledgment was made in that State, shall be
valid to all intents and purposes as if such defect and omis-
sion did not exist; provided, that the execution and ac-
knowledgment of such deeds in all other respects conformed
to the laws of this State, in such cases made and provided;
saving, nevertheless, the rights of bona fide purchasers and
incumbrances without notice who may have become so prior
to June 1, 1947.

103. All deeds, mortgages, releases, bonds of conveyances,
bills of sale, chattel mortgages and all other conveyances,
of real or personal property, or of any interest therein or
agreements relating thereto which may have been executed, ac-
knowledged 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 in which the certifi-
cate of acknowledgment is not in the prescribed form, or in
which the official character of the officer taking the acknowl-
edgment is not set out in the body of the certificate, or has
not been certified to as required by law, or in which the
conveyance has not been witnessed to or sealed as required
by law, or any deed heretofore made to or from a corpora-
tion prior to the payment of the bonus tax which was after-
wards paid, shall be and the same are hereby made valid,
to all intents and purposes as if the conveyances and agree-
ments had been acknowledged, certified to, witnessed and
sealed according to law; providing the said deeds, mortgages,
bonds of conveyances, bills of sale and other conveyances
and agreements are in other respects in conformity with the
laws; provided, further, that nothing in this section shall
affect the interest of bona fide purchasers or creditors without
notice, who may have become so previous to June 1st, 1947.

107. Any assignment of any mortgage, which assignment
has been heretofore executed and recorded, but which has not
been scaled and in which no mention of any seal has been
made or in which either of such defects, or any mortgage or
assignment of mortgage sworn to or not sworn to at all, shall
be and they are hereby made valid to all intents and purposes,
as if said mortgage or assignment of mortgage had been in
such matters in full conformity with the law in force at the
time of such execution, provided, that any such mortgage or
assignment of mortgage is in other respects legal and valid;
. and provided, further that nothing in Sections 103 and 107