HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 989
CHAPTER 472.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections
87 and 91 of Article 21 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1929 Supplement), title "Conveyancing, " sub-title
"Defective Conveyances, " as said sections were amended
by Chapter 50 of the Acts of 1933, 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 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 An-
notated Code of Maryland (1929 Supplement), title "Con-
veyancing, " sub-title "Defective Conveyances, " as said sec-
tions were amended by Chapter 50 of the Acts of 1933, be
and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows: ......

87. All deeds, mortgages, releases, bonds of convey-
ances, bills of sale, chattel mortgages and all other con-
veyances of real or personal property, or of any interest
therein or agreements relating thereto which may have
been executed, acknowledged or recorded in the State sub-
sequent 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 before a proper
officer, or in which the certificate of acknowledgment 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
witnessed to or sealed as required by law, or 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