550                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 228

title "Defective Conveyances," be and they are hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, all to read as follows:

98.

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 acknowledgment
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 conform
to the laws of the State, in such cases made and provided; saving,
nevertheless, the rights of bona fide purchasers and encumbrancers
without notice who may have become so prior to June 1, [1964]
1967.

99.

All deeds, mortgages, releases, bonds of conveyances, bills of sale,
chattel mortgages 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 exist-
ing at the time of said acknowledgment, or which may not have
been acknowledged before a proper officer, or in which the certificate
of acknowledgment or affidavit of consideration is not in the
prescribed form, OR ON WHICH THE AFFIDAVIT OF AGENCY,
WHEN THE AFFIDAVIT OF CONSIDERATION IS MADE BY
AN AGENT IS NOT ENDORSED UPON SAID MORTGAGE OR
DEED OF TRUST PROVIDED THERE IS RECORDED AMONG
THE LAND RECORDS OF THE CITY OR COUNTY WHERE THE
LAND LIES, EITHER PRIOR TO OR AFTER SAID MORTGAGE
OR DEED OF TRUST, A CERTIFICATE BY THE MORTGAGEE
OR BENEFICIARY UNDER A DEED OF TRUST CERTIFYING
THAT SAID AGENT IS IN FACT SUCH AGENT AND DULY
AUTHORIZED TO MAKE SUCH AFFIDAVIT, or in which the
official character of the officer taking the acknowledgment 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 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 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, [1964] 1967.