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	CHAP. 341	of its beginning business if it had complied with all pro- visions of law with reference thereto; and upon said pay- ment the said company is authorized to organize and do business as fully and effectively as though said presumption of the surrender of its charter and its corporate rights did not exist and it had in all respects complied with the law of this State relating to corporations. SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved April 3, 1906. CHAPTER 342. AN ACT to make valid, deeds and mortgages, bonds of con- veyance and bills of sale, wanting or defective in the acknowledgment, affidavit or certificate thereof. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary- land, That Section 82 of Article 21 of the Code of Public
	Repeal and re-enact.	General Laws of the State of Maryland, title " Conveyancing," as enacted by Chapter 258 of the Acts of the said General Assembly of 1904, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, as follows : 82. All deeds, mortgages, bonds of conveyance and bills of sale, which have been heretofore executed and acknowledged,
	Deeds, mort- gages, etc., made valid.	but not acknowledged or sworn to according to the laws existing at the time of said execution and acknowledgment, or where the certificate of acknowledgment or affidavit is not in the perscribed form shall be, and the same are hereby made valid to all intents and purposes, as if the said acknowl- edgment and certificate thereof, or affidavit and certificate thereof, had been made in accordance with the laws existing at the time of their making; provided, the said deeds, mortgages, bonds of conveyance and bills of sale in other respects are in conformity with the laws and recorded in the records of the proper county or counties or city; and provided further, that nothing in this section shall affect the interests of bona fide purchasers or creditors, without notice, who may become so previous to the passage of this Act. SEC. 2. And be it farther enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved April 3, 1906.