HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 125
CHAPTER 168.
(House Bill 37)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections
102, 103 and 107 of Article 21, of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1943 Supplement), title "Conveyancing", sub-
title "Defective Conveyances", to make valid deeds, mort-
gages, bonds of conveyances, bills of sale, and all other
conveyances of real and personal property, or of any interest
therein or agreements relating thereto, defective in ac-
knowledgment or in the certificate thereof, or when the offi-
cial 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 agree-
ment 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 Mary-
land, That Sections 102, 103 and 107 of Article 21 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1943 Supplement), title "Convey-
ancing", sub-title "Defective Conveyances", 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hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as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 ac-
knowledgment 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 at-
tached, 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, never-
theless, the rights of bona fide purchasers and incumbrances
without notice who may have become so prior to June 1.
1945.