MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                        319

title "Defective Conveyances," be and they are hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, 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] July 1,1969.

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 existing 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 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 cor-
poration prior to the payment of the bonus tax which was after-
wards 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]
July 1, 1969.

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