ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1567

of Maryland, Session of 1920, entitled "An Act to make valid
deeds, mortgages, bonds of conveyances, bills of sale and all
other conveyances of real and personal property, or of any in-
terest, defective in acknowledgment or in the certificate thereof,
or when the official character of the officer taking the acknowl-
edgment has not been stated in the body of the certificate or
certified to, as required by law, or when the conveyance has
not been witnessed and sealed, or any mortgage or assignment
of mortgage defectively sworn to or not sworn to at all," be
and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read
as follows: All deeds, mortgages, releases, bonds of convey-
ance, bills of sale, chattel mortgages and all other conveyances
of real and personal property, or of any interest therein or
agreements relating thereto which may have been executed, ac-
knowledged 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 acknowl-
edgment is not in the prescribed form, or when the official
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 wit-
nessed to or sealed as required by law, or when any deed
heretofore made to or from a corporation prior to the payment
of bonus tax which was afterwards paid, shall be and the
same are hereby made valid, to all intent and purposes as if
the conveyances and agreements had been acknowledged, certi-
fied to, witnessed and sealed according to law; providing the
said deeds, mortgages, bonds of conveyances, bills of sale and
other conveyances and agreements 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, or any mortgage or assignment of mortgage 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 assign-