ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1217

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Sections 87 and 91 of Article 21 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland, title "Conveyancing, " sub-title "De-
fective Conveyances, " as said sections were amended by Chap-

ter 431 of the Acts of 1924, be and they are hereby repealed
and re-enacted with amendments to read as follows:

87. 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 agree-
ments relating thereto which may have been executed, acknowl-
edged 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 acknowledged be-
fore a proper officer, or when the certificate of acknowledg-
ment is not in the prescribed form, or when the official char-
acter 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 here-
tofore 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 intents and purposes as if the
conveyances and agreements had been acknowledged, certified
to, witnessed and sealed according to law; providing the said
deeds, mortgages, bonds or conveyances, bills of sale and other-
conveyances and agreements are in other respects in conform-
ity with the laws; provided, further, that nothing in this sec-
tion shall affect the interest of bona fide purchasers or cred-
itors, without notice, who may have become so previous to June
1st, 1927.

91. 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, 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 assignment of mortgage had been in
such matters in full conformity with the law in force at the

time of such execution; provided, that any such mortgage or
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