EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 859

Act of the General Assembly of Maryland passed at its Janu-
ary 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 acknowl-
edged before a proper officer, or when the certificate or ac-
knowledgment is not in the prescribed form, or when the offi-
cial character of the officer taking the acknowledgment is not
Set out in the body of the certificate, or 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 conveyances have been acknowledged, certified to, wit-
nessed and sealed according to law; providing the said deeds,
mortgagee, bonds of conveyances, bills of sale and other con-
veyances 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 the passage of this Act.

SEC. 1A. And be it further enacted, That any assignment
of any mortgage, which assignment has been heretofore exe-
cuted 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 exist, or any mortgage or assignment of mortgage
defectively 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 this Act shall affect the rights of any
bona fide purchaser or creditor without notice, who becomes so
prior to the passage of this Act.

Approved April 10th. 1918.

CHAPTER 397.

AN ACT to add a new Section to Article 3 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, entitled "Baltimore Coun-
ty," sub-title "Birds and Game," as enacted by Chapter 338
of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of the
Session of 1914, to be known as Section 8-A.