Chap. 170.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 274 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to when justices and other officers may administer oaths and take

affidavits. [H B 282]
Approved March 22, 1932

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion two hundred and seventy-four of the Code of Virginia, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 274, Any oath or affidavit required by law, which is not
of such a nature that it must be made in court, may be administered
by, or made before, a justice and certified by him, unless otherwise
provided; and in any case in which an oath might be administered
by, or an affidavit made before a justice, the same may be admin-
istered by or made before a notary, a commissioner in chancery, a
commissioner appointed by the governor, or a court or clerk of a
court, or deputy clerk of a court, or clerks of city councils, common
councils, or boards of aldermen; or in case of a survey directed by
a court in a cause therein pending, by or before the surveyor directed
to execute said order of survey.