120 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 61

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Sections 107 and 108 of Article 21 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Con-
veyancing, " sub-title "Defective Conveyances, " be and they
are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

107. All deeds, mortgages, releases, bonds of convey-
ances, bills of sale, chattel mortgages and all other con-
veyances, of real or personal property, or of any interest
therein or agreements or power of attorney relating thereto
which may, have been executed, acknowledged or recorded
in the State subsequent to the passage of the Act of the
General Assembly of Maryland, passed at its January Ses-
sion, 1858, Chapter 208, which may not have been ac-
knowledged according to the laws existing at the time of
said acknowledgment, or which may not have been ac-
knowledged before a proper officer, or in which the certi-
ficate of acknowledgment is not in the prescribed form, or
in which the official character of the officer taking the ac-
knowledgment 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 pay-
ment of the bonus tax which was afterwards paid, shall be
and the same are hereby made valid, to all intents and pur-
poses as if the conveyances and agreements had been ac-
knowledged, 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 1st,
[1951] 1953.

108. 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 assignment of mortgage sworn to or not
sworn to at all, shall be and they are hereby made valid to

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[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
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