SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                       551

100.

Any assignment of any mortgage, which assignment has been
heretofore 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 99 and this
section shall affect the rights of any bona fide purchasers or
creditors, without notice, who may have become so prior to June 1,
[1964] 1967.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1967.

Approved April 14, 1967.

CHAPTER 229
(House Bill 311)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 77 (a) of
Article 101 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replacement
Volume), title "Workmen's Compensation," subtitle "State
Accident Fund," providing for notice of intention to cancel
insurance to be served upon employer by certified mail.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 77(a) of Article 101 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1964 Replacement Volume), title "Workmen's Compensation,"
subtitle "State Accident Fund," be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

77.

(a) If an employer shall default in any payment required to be
made by him to the State Accident Fund, the policy or contract of
insurance issued by the State Accident Fund against liability arising
under this article, the commissioners or superintendent or assistant
superintendent of the State Accident Fund may cancel the policy of
insurance of any such employer, such cancellation to be effective
upon the expiration of at least thirty days after notice of intention
to cancel of such contract or policy of insurance, on a date specified
in such notice, shall be filed in the office of the Workmen's Compen-
sation Commission and also served on the employer. Such notice shall
be served on the employer by delivering it to him or by sending it by
mail, by registered or certified letter, addressed to the employer at
his or its last known residence, provided, that if the employer be a
partnership then such notice may be given to any one of the partners,
and if the employer be a corporation then the notice may be so given
to any agent or official of the corporation upon whom legal process