1216 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 590

CHAPTER 589.

AN ACT to declare the sanction and consent of the General
Assembly of Maryland to a certain deed dated the 21st day
of March, 1927, and duly recorded among the Land Records
of Baltimore City from The Frank Novak Realty Company
to St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church of High-
landtown, Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the sanction and consent of the said General
Assembly of Maryland be and the same is hereby declared,
given and granted to the deed dated the 21st day of March,
1927, and duly recorded among the Land Records of Baltimore
City from The Frank Novak Realty Company to St. Mat-
thew's Evangelical Lutheran Church of Highlandtown, Mary-
land, covering a lot of ground on the north side of Eastern
Avenue between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Streets, said
lot of ground being seventy-three feet front with a depth of
one hundred and twelve feet and six inches, be and the same
is hereby ratified and confirmed.

Approved April 26, 1927.

CHAPTER 590.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections 87
and 91 of Article 21 of the Annotated Code of Maryland,
title "Conveyancing, " sub-title "Defective Conveyances, " as
said sections were amended by Chapter 431 of the Acts of
1924, 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.