126 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 168

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, ac-
knowledged 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 acknowledged
before a proper officer, or in which the certificate of acknowledg-
ment 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 hereto-
fore made to or from a corporation prior to the payment of
the 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, certi-
fied 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 con-
formity with the laws; provided,. further, that nothing in this
section shall affect the interest of bona fide purchasers or
creditors without notice, who may have become so previous to
June 1st, 1945.

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 as-
signment of mortgage sworn to or not sworn to at all, shall
be and they are hereby made valid to all intents and pur-
poses, 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 mort-
gage or assignment 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 cred-
itors, without notice, who become so prior to June 1st, 1945.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1945.

Approved February 28, 1945.