Chap. 78.—An ACT to validate the acknowledgment taken by mayors and
members of councils who are ex-officio justices of the peace, and whose
power to take such acknowledgments has been questioned.

Approved March 7, 1906.

Whereas certain charters have been granted incorporating towns in
this State and clothing the mayors of said towns and members of the
councils with powers of justices of the peace, under which acknowledg-
ments of deeds and other writings have been taken; and whereas it is
desirable, in the interest of innocent purchasers, that said acknowledg-
ments be validated ; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That all ac-
knowledgments of deeds and other writings taken by mayors and mem-
bers of the councils of towns incorporated since the tenth day of July,
pineteen hundred and two, be, and the same are, validated and made as
binding and effectual as if the said acknowledgments had been taken
by properly autherized officers.