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($15.00) per day for each and every day they shall attend the Cir-
cuit Court of Frederick County as jurors and a reasonable amount
in the discretion of the County Commissioners, for each mile going
to and returning from the court.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1970.

Approved April 15, 1970

CHAPTER 137
(Senate Bill 780)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 98, 99,
and 100 of Article 21 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969
Supplement), title "Conveyances," subtitle "Defective Convey-
ances," 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 (1969 Supplement), title "Conveyances," subtitle "De-
fective Conveyances," be and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted,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; pro-
vided, 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 pur-
chasers and encumbrancers without notice who may have become
so prior to [July 1, 1969.] July 1, 1970.

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