Chap. 236.—An ACT to validate acknowledgments taken before notaries and other
officials to which they did not affix their official seals. [S B 367]

Approved March 14, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That where a
certificate of acknowledgment has heretofore been made to any in-
strument in writing required by chapter two hundred and eleven of the
Code, to be acknowledged and the notary or other official taking same
failed to affix his official seal to said certificate of acknowledgment,
where a seal was necessary, and the said instrument in writing has been
recorded, the said certificate of acknowledgment shall be as valid for all
purposes as if said seal had been affixed, and the said deed shall hence-
forth be notice to all persons as effectually as if said seal had -been af-
fixed; provided, however, that said acknowledgment is in other respects
sufficient.

2. Anemergency existing to validate such deeds and writings, afore-
said as have been recorded, this act shall take effect from its passage.