CHAPTER 384

An Act to amend and reenact § 55-127 of the Code of Virginia, validating
certain acts, deeds and acknowledgements.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

: P That § 55-127 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 55-127. All certificates of acknowledgement to deeds and other
writings taken and certified prior to * January one, nineteen hundred sixty-
two, by commissioners of deeds of states other than Virginia, appointed or
commissioned by the governor of such state, and by notaries public ap-
pointed or commissioned by the Governor of Virginia, or appointed or
commissioned under the laws of any state other than this State, or an
other officer authorized under this chapter to take and certify acknow
edgements to deeds and other writings who took and certified such
acknowledgements after their term of office had expired, 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 or appear to be valid upon
their face; and all such deeds and other writings which have been admit-
ted to record in any clerk’s office in the State 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.