THEODORE R. McKELDIN, GOVERNOR                   671

of Maryland (1954 Supplement), title "Conveyances", sub-title
"Defective Conveyances", be and they are hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

106.   All deeds of conveyance of property in this State, which may
have been recorded without any certificate of the 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
attached, when the grantor resided in another State, and the acknowl-
edgment 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 pro-
vided; saving, nevertheless, the rights of bona fide purchasers and
incumbrancers without notice who may have become so prior to
June 1, [1952] 1955.

107.   All deeds, mortgages, releases, bonds of conveyances, bills of
sale, chattel mortgage and all other conveyances, 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
subsequent 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 ac-
knowledged 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 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 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 acknowl-
edged, certified 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 1, [1954]1955.

108.   Any assignment of any mortgage, which assignment has been
heretofore executed or recorded but which has not been sealed and in
which no mention of any seal has been made or in which either of
such affects, 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, provided, that any such mortgage or
assignment of mortgage is in other respects legal and valid; and pro-
vided further, that nothing in Section 107 and this section shall affect