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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 pur-
chasers and incumbrances without notice who may have become so
prior to June 1, [1956] 1957.

107.    Validation of certain acknowledgments or deeds not prop-
erly witnessed or sealed or made before bonus tax paid.

All deeds, mortgages, releases, bonds of conveyances, bills of sale,
chattel mortgages and all other conveyances, or 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 exist-
ing at the time of said acknowledgment, or which may not have
been acknowledged before a proper officer, or in which the certifi-
cate 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 certifi-
cate, 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 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, [1956] 1957.

108.    Validation of certain assignments of mortgages.

Any assignment of any mortgage, which assignment has been here-
tofore 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 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
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, [1956] 1957.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1957.

Approved March 1, 1957.