CHAP. 450.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to vaili-
date acknowledgment of deeds of trust taken by notaries public and
justices of the peace who were trustees in said deeds, approved March
16, 1902, so as to include deeds of trust acknowledged before com-
missioners in chancery. (S. B. 198.)

Approved March 21, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled an act to validate acknowledgments of deeds
of trust taken by notaries public and justices of the peace who
were trustees in said deeds, approved March sixteenth, nineteen
hundred and two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows: |

1. Whereas, numerous deeds of trust conveying land in the
State of Virginia have been acknowledged before notaries pub-
lic, justices of the peace and commissioners in chancery, who
were trustees in said deeds of trust; and whereas much incon-
venience and hardship will arise therefrom; therefore, all certi-
ficates of acknowledgments of deeds of trust heretofore made
before and certified by such notaries public, justices of the
peace, and commissioners in chancery, being trustees in such
deeds, shall be held valid and effective in all respects, if other-
wise valid according to the law then in force.