1106 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 431

CHAPTER 431.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections 85
and 89 of Article 21 of the Annotated Code of Maryland,
title "Conveyancing, " sub-title "Defective Conveyances, " as
said sections were amended by Chapter 544 of the Acts of
1922, to make valid deeds, mortgages, bonds of conveyances,
bills of sale, and all other conveyances of real and personal
property, or of any interest therein or of agreements relating
thereto, defective in acknowledgment or in the certificate
thereof, or when the official character of the officer taking
the acknowledgment has not been stated in the body of the
certificate or certified to, as required by law, or when the
conveyance or agreement has not been witnessed or sealed,
or when any deed heretofore made to or from a corporation
prior to the payment of bonus tax which was afterwards
paid, or any mortgage or assignment of mortgage defectively
sworn to or not sworn to at all.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 85 and 89 of Article 21 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, title "Conveyancing, " sub-title "Defective
Conveyances, " as said sections were amended by Chapter 544
of the Acts of 1922, be and they are hereby repealed and re-
enacted with amendments to read as follows:

85. All deeds, mortgages, releases, bonds of conveyance,
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, 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 acknowl-
edged according to the laws existing at the time of said ac-
knowledgment, or which may not have been acknowledged be-
fore a proper officer, or when the certificate of acknowledg-
ment is not in the prescribed form, or when the official charac-
ter 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, 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, certified to. witnessed
and sealed according to law; providing the said deeds, mort-