ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1287

ances, " as said sections were amended by Chapter 590 of
the Acts of 1927, 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 agree-
ments 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 mort-
gage defectively sworn to or not sworn to at all.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That 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 590 of the "Acts of 1927, be and they are hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

87. All deeds, mortgages, releases, bonds of conveyances,
bills of sale, chattel mortgages and all other conveyances of
real or 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 in which the certificate of acknowledg-
ment is not in the prescribed form, or in which 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 in which the conveyance has not been wit-
nessed to or sealed as required by law, or 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 intents and purposes as if the con-
veyances 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 conformity
with the laws; provided, further, that nothing in this section
shall effect the interest of bona fide purchasers or creditors,