666 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

quent to the passage of the Act the General Assembly of Mary-
land 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 certifi-
cate of acknowledgment 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 con-
veyance 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 had been acknowledge,
certified to, witnessed and sealed according to law; provided the
said deeds, mortgages, 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. 1-A. 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, or any mortgage or assignment of mortgage de-
fectively sworn to or not sworn to at all, shall be and they are
hereby made valid to all intents and purposes, as if said mort-
gage or assignment of mortgage had been in such matters in
full conformity with the law in force at the time of such execu-
tion; provided, that any such mortgage or assignment of mort-
gage 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.

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

Approved April 10th, 1914.

CHAPTER 422.

AN ACT to provide for the erection of sign-posts for the direc-
tion of, and warning of danger to, travelers on the roads and
highways of this State by the Commissioner of Motor Ve-
hicles out of the receipts of his office, and limiting the expen-
diture for those purposes to the sum of One Thousand Dollars