18 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

into payments made for or in behalf of the Senate, and pay-
ments made for or in behalf of the House of Delegates.
Approved April 6, 1908.

ARTICLE XXI.

CONVEYANCING.

CHAPTER 259.

AN ACT to make valid deeds, mortgages, bonds of convey-
ances, bills of sale and all other conveyances of real and
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 the 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 1 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland, Session 1906, entitled "An Act to make valid deeds,
mortgages, bonds of conveyance and bills of sale defective in
acknowledgment or in certificate thereof, " be and the same is
hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
All deeds, mortgages, releases, bonds of conveyance, 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 subse-
quent 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 exist-
ing at the time of said acknowledgment, or which may have not
been acknowledged before a proper officer, or when the certi-
ficate of acknowledgment is not in the prescribed form, or
where the official character of the officer taking the acknowl-
edgment 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
intents and purposes as if the said conveyance had been
acknowledged, certified to and witnessed according to law, pro-
vided the said deeds, mortgages, bonds of conveyance, bills of
sale and other conveyances are in other respects in confor-
mity with the laws; provided further, that nothing in this
section shall affect the interest of bona fide purchasers or credi-
tors, without notice, who may have become so previous to the
passage of this Act.