Chap. 252.—An ACT to validate the recordation of a deed of record in the clerk’
office of Elizabeth City county.

Approved March 25, 1902.

1.’ Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That wherea
there appears copied in deed-book three, at page three hundred an
thirty-one, et seq., in the county court clerk’s office of Elizabeth Cit
county, a certain deed of conveyance from Thomas Tabb, special com
missioner, and William R. Vaughan, trustee, to Mary Maria Blackmore
bearing date of..... May, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, whic
deed appears to have been duly signed and sealed, and to which is an
nexed the form of a certificate of acknowledgment by the grantors be
fore the elerk of the county court of Elizabeth City county, but whic

certificate of acknowledgment appears not to have been signed by th
said clerk; and,
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Whereas, the original of said deed has been lost or destroyed ; and,

Whereas, the clerk whose name should have been signed to the said
certificate of acknowledgment is dead ; and,

Whereas, others of the parties in interest are also dead: now, therefore

The recordation of the said deed of conveyance is hereby validatec
and made good and effectual to all intents and purposes as if the saic
certificate of acknowledgment had been signed in due form. :

2. And the clerk of the county court of Elizabeth City county wil)
enter on the margin of the deed-book where the said deed is recorded thx
following: “The recordation of this deed is validated by an act of assem.
bly approved........ day of December, nineteen hundred and one.”

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