THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 189

been executed, acknowledged or recorded in the State sub-
sequent 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 acknowledgment or
affidavit of consideration 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 corporation 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; providing 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 1, [1953]
1954.

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 assign-
ment of mortgage had been in such matters in full con-
formity with the law in force at the time of such execution,
provided, that any such mortgage or assignment of mort-
gage is in other respects legal and valid; and provided
further, that nothing in Sections 107 and 108 shall affect
the rights of any bona fide purchasers or creditors, without
notice, who become so prior to June 1, [19533 1954.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1954.

Approved March 12, 1954.