ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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12. Every bill of exchange, draft or promissory
note drawn after the passage of this act, and
purporting to be payable at sight or at presenta-
tion shall, for all purposes whatever, be deemed
to be a bill of exchange, draft or promissory
note payable on demand without grace.

Bills of ex-
change, etc.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1888.

Chapter 485.

AN ACT to make valid deeds, mortgages, bonds
of conveyance and bills of sale defective in
the acknowledgment or in the certificate
thereof.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-

Effective.

sembly of Maryland, That all deeds, mortgages,
bonds of conveyance and bills of sale which
have been executed and acknowledged, and are
recorded, in this state subsequent to the passage
of the act of the General Assembly of Mary-
land, passed at the January session, eighteen
hundred and fifty-eight, chapter two hundred
and eight, which may not have been acknowl-
edged, according to the laws existing at the time
of said acknowledgment, or where the certificate
of acknowledgment is not in the prescribed form,
be and the same are hereby made valid to all in-
tents and purposes as if the said acknowledg-
ment and the certificate thereof had been in

Made valid.

legal form ; provided that said deeds, mortgages,
bonds of conveyance and bills of sale in other
respects are in conformity with the laws ; and
provided, further, that nothing in this act shall
effect the interest of bona fide purchasers or
creditors, without notice, who may have become
so previous to the passage of this act.

Proviso.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1888.

Effective.