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SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety, and having
been passed upon a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths
of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the
General Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of
its passage.

Approved April 17, 1931.

CHAPTER 312.

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 546 of the Acts of
1929, 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.

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ter 546 of the Acts of 1929, be and they are hereby repealed
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 Janu-
ary Session, 1858, Chapter 208, which may not have been