Chap. 542.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to allow notaries public or
other officers who hold stock in companies to take acknowledgments to deeds
or other writings which said companies execute: provided said notaries or
other officers are in no otherwise interested, approved February 2, 1892.

Approved March 1, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an
act to allow notaries public or other officers who hold stock in com-
panies to take acknowledgments to deeds or other writings which
said companies execute: provided said notaries or other officers are
in no otherwise interested, approved February second, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows: _

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That no
acknowledgment heretofore or hereafter taken to any deed or other
writing executed by a-company or for the benefit of a company shall
be held to be invalid by reason of said acknowledgment having been
taken by a notary public or other officer who, at the time of taking
said acknowledgment, was a stockholder or officer in the company
which executed said deed or writing, and who was in no otherwise
interested in the property conveyed or disposed of by said deed or
writing; and the record of any such deed or writing heretofore made
shall in all respects be deemed valid, notwithstanding the fact that
the notary or other officer was, at the time of such acknowledgment,
a stockholder or officer in the company executing said deed or
writing or for the benefit of which such deed or writing was executed:
provided said notary or other officer was in no otherwise interested
in the property conveyed or disposed of by said deed or writing when
said acknowledgment was taken.

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