Chap. 513.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to allow nota-
ries or other officers who hold stock in companies to take acknowledgments to
deeds or other writing which said companies execute, provided said notaries or
other officers are in no wise interested,” approved February 2, 1892, as amended
and re-enacted by an act approved March 1, 1894, and to validate all such ac-
knowledgments heretofore taken by such notaries or officers, and to repeal an
act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled ‘an act to allow nota-
ries or other officers who hold stock in companies to take acknowledgments to
deeds or other writing which said companies execute, provided said notaries
or other officers are in no otherwise interested,’ approved March 1, 1892, as
amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 2, 1894, and to validate
all such acknowledgments heretofore taken by such notaries or officers,” ap-
proved May 20, 1903.

Approved December 31, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act en-
titled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to allow nota-
ries or other officer who hold stock in companies to take acknowledgments
to deeds or other writing which said companies execute, provided said
notaries or other officer are in no otherwise interested, approved March
first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, as amended and re-enacted by act
approved February second, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and to
validate such acknowledgments heretofore taken by such notaries or
officer, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. That no acknowledgment heretofore taken to any deed or any
writing executed by a company, or for the benefit of a company, shall be
held to be invalid by reason of the said acknowledgment having been
taken by a notary public or other officer duly authorized to take acknowl-
edgments who, at the time of taking said acknowledgment, was a stock-
holder, an officer, or both, in the company which executed said deed or
writing, or for the benefit of which said deed or writing was executed, but
who was not otherwise interested in the property conveyed or disposed of
by said deed or writing; and such deed or other writing, and the recorda-
tion thereof, shall be valid in all respects as if this act had been in force
when it was executed. ,

§ 2. And hereafter any notary public or other officer duly authorized
to take acknowledgments may take the acknowledgment to any deed or
other writing executed by a company, or for the benefit of a company, al-
though he may be a stockholder in such company: provided, he is not
also at the time such an officer of said company that would have to unite
in executing such deed or writing, or is not otherwise interested in the
property conveyed or disposed of thereby.

2. Be it further enacted, That an act entitled “an act to amend and re-
enact an act entitled ‘an act to allow notaries or other officers who hold
stock in companies to take acknowledgments to deeds or other writing
which said companies execute, provided said notaries or other officer are
in no otherwise interested,’ approved March first, eighteen hundred and
ninety-two, as amended and re-enacted by act approved February second, :
eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and to validate all such acknowledg-
ments heretofore taken by such notaries or officer,” approved May twen-
tieth, nineteen hundred and three, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.