CONVEYANCE. 65

Maryland, Session 1908, entitled "An Act to make valid deeds,
mortgages, bonds of conveyances 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hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows: All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 exe-
cuted, acknowledged or recorded in the State subsequent 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 acknowl-
edged before a proper officer, or when the certificate of ac-
knowledgment is not in the prescribed form or when the offi-
cial 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 intents and pur-
poses, as if the conveyance had been acknowledged, certified to
and witnessed according to law; provided the said deeds, mort-
gages, bonds of conveyance, bills of sale and other conveyances
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. IA. And be it further enacted. That any assignment of
any mortgage, which assignment 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 exists, shall be and they are hereby made valid to all
intents and purposes, as if said assignment had been in such
matters in full conformity with the law in force at the time
of such execution; provided, that any such assignment is in
other respects legal and valid; and provided further, that noth-
ing in this Act shall affect the rights of any bona fide pur-
chaser or creditor without notice, who becomes so prior to the
passage of this Act.

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

Approved April 8, 1910.