WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 277

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 102, 103 and 107 of Article 21 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1947 Supplement), title "Con-
veyancing", 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are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read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
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^ never-
theless, the rights of bona fide purchasers and incumbrancers
without notice who may have become so prior to June 1,
1949.

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 acknowledge 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 certified to as required by law, or in which
the conveyance has not been witnessed to or sealed as re-
quired by law, or any deed heretofore made to or from a cor-
poration 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, certified to, witnessed
and sealed according to law; providing the said deeds,
mortgages, bonds of conveyances, bills of sale and other con-