Chap. 47.—An ACT to Authorize Deputy Clerks to take Acknowledgments
of Deeds by Married Women in certain cases.

Approved January 30, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section eight 5
of chapter one hundred and sixty-three of the Code of Vir- ‘
ginia (edition 1860), as amended and re-enacted by an act en- 4
titled an act to amend sections three and four of chapter one §
hundred and twenty-one, and section eight of chapter one ¢
hundred and sixty-three of the said Code, passed February 1
second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

“$8. Any clerk of a court may, with its consent, or if he be n
clerk of a circuit court, with the consent in writing of the
judge thereof in vacation, appoint a deputy, who, during his e
continuance in office, may discharge any of the duties of the 4
clerk, except that he shall not take the privy examination, ac-
knowledgment and declaration of a married woman to a deed,
unless the court shall, together with its consent to his appoint-
ment, specially declare, by an order entered of record, that
such deputy shall have such power.”

it 2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

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