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if the conveyances and agreements had been acknowledged,
certified to, witnessed and sealed according to law; provid-
ing the said deeds, mortgages, bonds of 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 affect the interest of bona
fide purchasers or creditors, without notice, who may have
become so previous to June 1st, 1935.

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 mort-
gage 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 mort-
gage 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 assignment of mortgage is in other
respects legal and valid; and provided, further, that noth-
ing in Sections 87 and 91 shall affect the rights of any bona
fide purchasers or creditors, without notice, who becomes
so prior to June 1st, 1935.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1935.

Approved May 17, 1935.

CHAPTER 473.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections
93 and 95 of Article 9 of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Charles County, "
subtitle "County Treasurer, " Section 93 having been
amended by Chapter 563 of the Acts of 1933 relating
to the changing of date of Tax Sales, to the postpone-
ment of the date of Tax Sales and permitting the redemp-
tion of property sold for taxes within two years of date
of sale, requiring an audit by the Court auditor of tax
sales, authorizing the transfer of the surplus remaining
in the accounts of the Treasurer over and above the
amount due for State and County taxes when the period
of redemption has passed to the County Commissioners
of Charles County to be by them applied to the general
funds of the County, authorizing the payment by the