370 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

of real or personal property, or of any interest therein which
may have been executed acknowledged or recorded in this 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 acknowledged before a proper officer, or when the
certificate of acknowledment or affidavit is not in the prescribed
form or when 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 intents and purposes, as if the conveyance or affidavit
had been acknowledged or sworn to, certified to, witnessed and
sealed in accordance with the laws existing at the time of their
making; provided, that the said deeds, mortgages, bonds of con-
veyance, bills of sale and other conveyances are in other respects
in conformity with the laws; and 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. 2. 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 made 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
nothing in this Act shall affect the rights of any bona fide pur-
chaser or creditor without notice, who becomes so prior fo the
passae of this Act.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
passage of this Act.

Approved April 1st, 1914.

CHAPTER 260.

AN ACT to add an additional Section to Article 22 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, title '' Washington County,''