Chap. 277.—An ACT to validate acknowledgments heretofore taken by justices of
the peace, mayors of cities or towns, police justices or civil and police justices
who by virtue of their offices had the powers and authority of justices of
the peace, where such justices or mayors or police justices or civil and police
justices are designated in the certificates of acknowledgment as police justices
or as civil and police justices. {[H B 440]

Approved March 25, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That all
certificates of acknowledgment to deeds and other writings hereto-
fore taken and certified by justices of the peace, and mayors of cities
or towns and police justices and civil and police justices who by
virtue of their offices had the powers and authority of justices of the
peace, where such justices of the peace or mayors or police justices
or civil and police justices are designated in the certificates of
acknowledgment as mayors or police justices or civil and police
justices 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.