ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                  787

acknowledged according to the laws existing at the time of
said acknowledgment, or which may not have been acknowl-
edged 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
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
conveyances and agreements had been acknowledged, certified
to, witnessed and sealed according to law; providing 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 effect the interest of bona fide purchasers or creditors,
without notice, who may have become so previous to June 1st,
1931.

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 assign-
ment 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 assign-
ment of mortgage is in other respects legal and valid; and pro-
vided, further, that nothing in Section 87 and 91 shall effect
the rights of any bona fide purchasers or creditors, without
notice, who become so prior to June 1st, 1931.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1st, 1931.

Approved April 17, 1931.

CHAPTER 313.

AN ACT to repeal Sections 424 to 453A, both inclusive, of
Article 2 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1930 Edition), title "Anne Arundel County, " sub-title