Chap. 303.—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 1, 1892, as
amended and re-enacted by act approved February 2, 1894, and to validate alt
such acknowledgments heretofore taken by such notaries or officer.”

Approved May 20, 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 no-
taries or other officer who hold stock in companies to take acknowledg-
ments to deeds or other writing which said companies execute, provided
said notaries or other officer are in no otherwise interested, approved
March the first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, as amended and re-
enacted by act approved February the second, eighteen hundred and
nincty-four, and to validate all such acknowledgments heretofore taken
hy such notarics or officer, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

<1. That no acknowledgement heretofore taken to any decd or any writ-
ing executed by a company, or for the benefit of a company, shall be he ld
to “he invalid by reason of the said acknowledgment having been taken by
a notary public or other officer, duly authorized to take acknow ledgments,
who, at the time of taking said acknow ledgment was a stockholder, an
officer, or both, in the company which executed said deed or writing, or for
the benefit of which said deed or writing was exccuted, but who was not
otherwise interested in the property conveved or disposed of by said deed
or writing: and such deed or other writing, and the recordation thereof,
shall be -alid in all respects, as if this act had been in force when it was
executed.

<2. And hereafter any notarv public or other ofticer 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 prop-
erty conveyed or disposed of thereby.

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