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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Bequest
St.Paul's Luth.
Church.

of Maryland be and the same are hereby given and declared
to the bequest of Mary Emma Spilcker, deceased, late of Bal-
timore City, of five hundred ($500) dollars to St. Paul's Eng-
lish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Baltimore City, a body
corporate.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved February 13, 1900.

CHAPTER 3.

AN ACT to make valid deeds, mortgages, bonds of conveyance
and bills of sale defective in the acknowledgment or in the
certificate thereof.

Repeal.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Chapter one hundred and twenty of the Laws of
the State of Maryland, Acts 1890, entitled an "Act to make
valid deeds, mortgages, bonds of conveyance and bills of sale
defective in the acknowledgment or in the certificate thereof, "
be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

Deeds, etc.,
Made valid.

82. All deeds, mortgages, bonds of conveyance and bills of
sale which have been executed and acknowledged, and are
recorded in this State subsequent to the passage of the Act of
the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at the January
session, 1858, Chapter two hundred and eight, which may not
have been acknowledged according to the laws existing at the
time of said acknowledgment, or where the certificate of
acknowledgment is not in the prescribed form, shall be and
the same are hereby made valid to all intents and purposes as
if the said acknowledgment and certificate thereof had been
in legal form; provided, that said deeds, mortgages, bonds of
conveyance and bills of sale in other respects are in conformity
with the laws; and provided, further, that nothing in this sec-
tion shall affect the interest of bona fide purchasers or creditors
without notice who may have become so previous to the pas-
sage of this Act.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved February 26, 1900.