LAWS OF MARYLAND.

	MARYLAND, Sct: At a session of the General Assembly of Maryland, begun and held in the City of Annapolis, on the third day of January, 1906, His Excellency, EDWIN WARFIELD, being Governor, the following laws were enacted, to wit : CHAPTER 1. AN ACT to make valid deeds, mortgages, bonds of convey- ance, bills of sales and all other conveyances of real or personal property, or of any interest therein, defective in acknowledgment or in the certificate thereof, or when the official character of the officer taking the acknowledgment has not been certified to, as required by law, or when the conveyance has not been witnessed and sealed. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
	land, That chapter 123 and 258 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, session 1904, each entitled "An Act to make valid deeds, mortgages, bonds of conveyance and bills of sale defective in the acknowledgment, or in the cer- tificate thereof," respectively, be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted, so as to read as follows : 82. All deeds, mortgages, releases, bonds of conveyance,	Repeal and re-enact.
	bills of sale, chattel mortgages and all other conveyances of real or personal property, or of any interest therein, which may have been executed, acknowledged or recorded in the State subsequent to the passage of the Act of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at the January Session, 1858, Chapter 208, which may not have been acknowledged according to the laws existing at the time of said acknowl- edgment, or when the certificate of acknowledgment is not in the prescribed form, or where the official character of the officer taking the acknowledgment has not been certified to as required by law, or where the conveyance has not been witnessed to or sealed as required by law, shall be and the same are hereby made valid to all interests and purposes as if the said conveyance had been acknowledged, certified to	Deeds, mort- gages, releases, etc., made valid.