THEODORE E. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 1211

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1951.

Approved April 13, 1951.

CHAPTER 419
(Vacant)

CHAPTER 420
(House Bill 625)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections
102, 103 and 107 of Article 21 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1947 Supplement), title "Conveyancing", sub-
title "Defective Conveyances", as said sections were amended
by Chapter 159 of the Acts of 1949, to make valid deeds,
mortgages, bonds of conveyances, bills of sale, and all other
conveyances of real and personal property, or of any inter-
est therein or agreements relating thereto, defective in
acknowledgment or in the certificate thereof, or when the
official character of the officer taking the acknowledgment
has not been stated in the body of the certificate or certi-
fied 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 pay-
ment 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 An-
notated Code of Maryland (1947 Supplement), title "Convey-
ancing", sub-title "Defective Conveyances", as said sections
were amended by Chapter 159 of the Acts of 1949, 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are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read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

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