HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 71
CHAPTER 44.
(Senate Bill 49)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments, Sections
87 and 91 of Article 21 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1935 Supplement), title "Conveyancing, " sub-
title "Defective Conveyances, " 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 acknowledgement or in the certificate there-
of, or when the official character of the officer taking the
acknowledgement 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
Annotated Code of Maryland (1935 Supplement), title
"Conveyancing, " sub-title "Defective Conveyances, " be and
they are hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments,
to read as follows:

87. All deeds, mortgages, releases, bonds of convey-
ances, bills of sale, chattel mortgages and all other convey-
ances, 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 acknowledgement, or
which may not have been acknowledged before a proper
officer, or in which the certificate of acknowledgement is
not in the prescribed form, or in which the official char-
acter of the officer taking the acknowledgement 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