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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 at-
tached, when the grantor resided in another State, and the ac-
knowledgment 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, nevertheless,
the rights of bona fide purchasers and incumbrancers without
notice who may have become so prior to June 1, [1949] 1951.

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, acknowl-
edged or recorded in the State subsequent to the passage of the
Act of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at its Janu-
ary 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 acknowl-
edgment 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 BY AN INDIVIDUAL OR CORPO-
RATION 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, 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
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, [1949] 1951.

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 assign-
ment of mortgage sworn to or not sworn to at all, shall be and