298          Laws of Maryland         [Ch. 57

tion and acknowledgment of such deeds in all other
respects conformed to the laws of this State, in such cases
made and provided; saying, nevertheless, the rights of bona
fide purchasers and incumbrancers without notice who
may have become so prior to June 1, [1951] 1952.

107.   All deeds, mortgages, releases, bonds of convey-
ances, bills of sale, chattel mortgages and all other convey-
ances, of real or personal property, or of any interest
therein or agreements relating thereto which may have
been executed, acknowledged or recorded in the State subse-
quent to the passage of the Act of the General Assembly
of Maryland, passed at its January Session, 1858, Chapter
?08, 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 acknowledgment is
not in the prescribed form, or in which the official char-
acter 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
heretofore 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, certified to, witnessed and sealed according
to law; provided the said deeds, mortgages, bonds of con-
veyances, bills of sale and other conveyances and agree-
ments, are in other respects in conformity 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,
[1951] 1952.

108.   Any assignment of any mortgage, which assign-
ment 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 assignment 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, pro-
vided, that any such mortgage or assignment of mortgage
is in other respects, legal and valid; and provided further,
that nothing in Sections 107 and 108 shall affect the rights