1048                             Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 479

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 ac-
knowledged 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 con-
sideration 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 if in
fact such agent and duly authorized to make such affidavit, or in
which the official character of the officer taking the acknowledg-
ment is not set out in the body of the certificate, or has not been
certified to as required by law, or deeds of trust executed and re-
corded prior to the effective date hereof, in which the affidavit of
disbursement of loan was not in the prescribed form, OR WAS IN-
ADVERTENTLY OMITTED, or was inadvertently omitted, or in
which the conveyance has not been witnessed to or sealed by an
individual or corporation as required by law, or any deed hereto-
fore made to or from a corporation prior to the payment 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 July 1, [1970] 1971.

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 July 1, [1970] 1971.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1971.

Approved May 17, 1971.