Chap. 219.-—An ACT to validate acknowledgments to deeds of trust taken by
persons authorized by law to take acknowledgments and who are trustees in

said deeds. [H B 233]
Approved March 23, 1936

Whereas, numerous deeds of trust conveying land in the State of
Virginia have been acknowledged before and certified by persons
authorized by law to take acknowledgments and who were trustees in
said deeds; and,

Whereas, a doubt has arisen as to the authority of such persons
to take and certify such acknowledgments to deeds in which they, the
said persons were trustees; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That all
certificates of acknowledgments to deeds of trust heretofore made and
certified by such persons being trustees in said deeds, shall be held and
the same are hereby declared valid and effective in all respects, if other-
wise valid according to the law then in force; and each such deed of
trust which has been admitted to record in any clerks office in the
State of Virginia, upon such a certificate, 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 affect or diminish
the rights or remedies of any person which have intervened since the
spreading of any such deed of trust on the record.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its passage.