Chap. 172.—An ACT validating acknowledgments heretofore taken by notaries
public in the State of Virginia whose commissions have expired. [S B 273]

Approved March 24, 1934

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 acknowledgments
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 writings
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; provided, however, that nothing in this act shall be so
construed as to effect any intervening vested rights.

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