ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 103

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Sections 87 and 91 of Article 21 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1929 Supplement), title
"Conveyancing, " sub-title "Defective Conveyances, " as said-
sections were amended by Chapter 312 of the Acts of 1931,
be and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

87. All deeds, mortgages, releases, bonds of convey-
ances, bills of sale, chattel mortgages and all other con-
veyances of real or personal property, or of any interest
therein or agreements relating thereto which may have
been executed, acknowledged or recorded in the State sub-
sequent 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 certificate of acknowledgment is
not in the prescribed form, or in which the official char-
acter of the officer taking the acknowledgment is not set
out in the body of the certificate, or has not been certi-
fied 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 corporation
prior to the payment of bonus tax which was afterwards
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, mort-
gages, bonds of conveyances, bills of sale and other con-
veyances and agreements are in other respects in conform-
ity 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, 1933.

91. Any assignment of any mortgage, which assign-
ment has been heretofore executed and recorded, but which
has not been sealed 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, pro-
vided, that any such mortgage or assignment of mortgage