Chap. 102.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: An act to validate
the acknowledgment by mayors and members of councils who are ex officio
justices of the peace and whose power to take such acknowledgment has been

questioned.
Approved February 29, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled “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 seventh, nineteen hundred and six, be amended and re-enacted to
read as follows:

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 acknowledgments be validated, therefore,
§1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That all
acknowledgments of deeds and other writings heretofore taken by
mayors and members of the councils of cities and towns be, and the
same are, validated and made as binding and effectual as if the said
acknowledgments had been taken by properly authorized officers. -

2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with’ this act are hereby re-
pealed.