Chap. 216.—An ACT validating acknowledgments heretofore taken by notaries
public in the State of Virginia whose commissions have expired. [H B 393]

Approved March 22, 1930

1, Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That all
certificates of acknowledgments to deeds and other writings heretofore
taken and certified by notaries public appointed or commissioned by
the governor of Virginia, who took and certified such acknowledg-
ments after their term of office had expired, 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 writ-
ings which have been admitted to record in any clerk’s office in the
State of Virginia upon such certificates, shall be held to be duly and
regularly recorded if such recordation be otherwise valid according
to the law then in force.

2. An emergency existing to validate any such deed or writing so.
recorded this act shall take effect from its passage.

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