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in this section shall affect the interest of bona fide purchasers
or creditors, without notice, who may have become so previous
to June 1st, 1943.

107. 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
provided, further, that nothing in Sections 103 and 107 shall
affect the rights of any bona fide purchasers or creditors,
without notice, who become so prior to June 1st, 1943.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1943.

Approved March 2, 1943.

CHAPTER 51.

(House Bill 103)

AN ACT to add a new Section to Article 13 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Harford County", sub-
title, "Deeds", said new Section to follow Section 245A of
said Article, as the same was enacted by Chapter 22 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, 1939 (said Sec-
tion 245A having been codified in Higinbothom's Code of
Public Local Laws of Harford County, as Section 221); said
new Section following said Section 221 of said last men-
tioned codification and to be known as Section 221A; pro-
viding that when the real estate belonging to a taxpayer in
any District in Harford County is disposed of in accordance
with the preceding Section, and said transferor thereof is
assessed in said District with personal property used for the
operation of the real estate transferred or in connection
therewith, such real estate shall not be transferred even
though the current taxes thereon have been paid, unless the
Clerk to the County Commissioners is given information
sufficient to properly transfer such personal property to its
new owner.