J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                               243

CHAPTER 187
(House Bill 146)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 98, 99 and
100 of Article 21 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957
Edition), title "Conveyancing", sub-title "Defective Conveyences
CONVEYANCES", validating certain defective deeds, mortgages,
bonds of conveyances, bills of sale and other conveyances.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 98, 99 and 100 of Article 21 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1957 Edition), title 'Conveyancing", sub-title "Defective
Conveyances", be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

98.    Validation of deeds with clerk's certificate as to justice or
lacking seal of foreign notary.

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 acknowledgement 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 acknowledgement was taken, having been first attached,
when the grantor resided in another state, and the acknowledgement
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 acknowledgement of such deeds in all other respects
conform to the laws of the State, in such cases made and provided;
saving, nevertheless, the rights of bona fied FIDE purchasers and
incumbrances ENCUMBRANCERS without notice who may have
become so prior to June 1, [1957.] 1959.

99.    Validation of certain acknowledgements or deeds not properly
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 Mary-
land passed at its January Session, 1858, Chapter 208, which may not
have been acknowledged according to the laws existing at the time
of said acknowledgement, or which may not have been acknowledged
before a proper officer, or in which the certificate of acknowledge-
ment or affidavit of consideraton CONSIDERATION is not in the
prescribed form, or in which the official character of the officer
taking the acknowledgement is not set out in the body of the certifi-
cate, or has not been certified to as required by law, or in which

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.