Chap. 200.—An ACT to validate certificates of acknowledgment to deeds
and other writings recorded in Virginia, taken by commissioners of
eeds appointed by governors of States other than the governor of
the State of Virginia. (S. B. 130.)

Approved March 16, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
all certificates of acknowledgment to deeds and other writings
heretofore taken and certified by commissioners of deeds of
other States than Virginia, appointed or commissioned by the
governor of such State, shall be held, and the same are hereby
declared valid and effective in all respects, if otherwise valid
according to the law then in force, and all such deeds and other
writings which have been admitted to record in any clerk’s of-
fice of the State of Virginia upon such certificates shall be held
to be duly and regularly recorded if such recordation be other-
wise valid according to the law then in force.

2. All acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed.

3. An emergency existing. to validate any such deed so re-
corded, this act shall take effect from its passage.