Chap. 149.—An ACT requiring notaries within this State to affix to certificates
of acknowledgment hereafter taken by them upon writings which are admitted
to record the date when their terms of office shall expire.

Approved March 10, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That upon every
certificate of acknowledgment hereafter taken by a notary within this
State to any writing there shall be written in, or annexed to, such certifi-
cate the words following: “My term of office expires on..... day of
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notary shall expire.
g2. Any notary who shall fail to comply with the foregoing provisions
of this act shall forfeit not less than five nor more than twenty dollars,
but any such failure shall not invalidate the certificate of acknowledg-
ment.