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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 conveyances,
bills of sale and other conveyances and agreements are in other
respects in conformity with the laws; provided, further, that noth-
ing in this section shall affect the interest of bona fide purchasers
or creditors without notice, who may have become so previous to
June 1, £1955] 1956.

108. Validation of certain assignments of mortgages.

Any assignment of any mortgage, which assignment has been here-
tofore executed [or] 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 [affects] 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 assignment of mortgage had been in such matters in full con-
formity with the law in force at the time of such execution, pro-
vided, that any such mortgage or assignment of mortgage is in other
respects legal and valid; and provided further, that nothing in
Section 107 and this section shall affect the rights of any bona fide
purchasers or creditors, without notice, who become so prior to
June 1, [1955] 1956.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1956.

Approved March 2, 1956.

CHAPTER 52
(Senate Bill 82)

AN ACT to declare the sanction and consent of the General As-
sembly of Maryland to sundry gifts, bequests and devises con-
tained in the Last Wills and Testaments of certain persons, de-
ceased, and also to certain gifts, grants, sales, leases and deeds
made by various persons to and for the use and benefit of sundry
ministerial persons, religious corporations, vestries, educational
and charitable institutions, churches, denominations or sects
hereinafter named.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the sanction and consent of the said General Assembly of
Maryland be and the same is hereby declared, given and granted
to the following gifts, bequests, devises, grants, sales, leases, con-

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.