HERBERT B. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 41

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 102, 103 and 107 of Article 21 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title ''Conveyancing",
sub-title "Defective Conveyances", as said sections were
amended by Chapter 141 of the Acts of 1941, be and they are
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

102. All deeds of conveyance of property in this State
which may have been recorded without any certificate of the
clerk of any of the courts of this State accompanying the
acknowledgment thereof, in cases in which such certificates
are necessary and proper, certifying to the official character
and signature of the Justice of the Peace taking the same, and
all deeds of conveyance of property in this State which may
have been recorded without the seal of the notary public before
whom the acknowledgment was taken, having been first
attached, when the grantor resided in another State, and the
acknowledgment was made in that State, shall be valid to all
intents and purposes as if such defect and omission did not
exist; provided, that the execution and acknowledgment of
such deeds in all other respects conformed to the laws of this
State, in such cases made and provided; saving, nevertheless,
the rights of bona fide purchasers and incumbrances without
notice who may have become so prior to June 1, 1943.

103. 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
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 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 certi-
fied 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 pay-
ment 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