Chap. 205.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2500 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, edition of 1887, in reference to when and where writings admitted to
record, as amended by an act approved February 28, 1896, entitled “an act to
amend and re-enact section 2500 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-
enact section 2501 of the Code as amended and re-enacted by an act approved
February 10, 1890, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2501 of the
Code, in relation to certificates of acknowledgment.”

Approved March 15, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-five hundred of the Code of Virginia, eighteen hundred and
eighty-seven, as amended by an act approved February twenty-eight,
eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

§ 2500. When and where writings admitted to record.—Except where
it is otherwise provided, the circuit court of any county, or the corpora-
tion court of any city, other than the city of Richmond, in which any
writing is to be or may be recorded, and: the chancery court of the city of
Richmond, when any such writing is to be or. may be recorded in said
city, or the clerk of any such court, or his duly qualified deputy, in his
office, shall admit to record any such writing as to any person whose
name is signed thereto, when it shall have been acknowledged by him, or
proved by two witnesses as to him in such court, or before such clerk,
or his duly qualified deputy, in his office, or in the manner prescribed in
section twenty-five hundred and one, and when such writing is signed
by a person acting on behalf of another, or in any representative capacity,
such acknowledgment before such court or clerk, or his deputy, may be in
accordance with the provisions of section twenty-five hundred and one.

2. Any writing which, since the thirty-first day of January, nineteen
hundred and four, has been admitted to record in the circuit court of any
county or by the clerk of any such court, or by any county clerk, or the
deputy of any such clerk, after having been acknowledged or proved
before such county clerk, or his deputy, or in the manner required by this
act and the following section of the Code, shall be regarded as having
been as fully and properly admitted to record as if such acknowledgment
or proof and admission to record had taken place in the manner herein
prescribed and after the passage of this act.

3. In view of the fact that there is uncertainty as to the proper place
for the record of writings, an emergency is declared to exist, and this act
shall be in force from its passage.