Chap. 61.—An ACT to validate certain certificates of acknowledgments to deeds
and other writings recorded in Virginia, taken bv commissioners of deeds ap-
pointed by Governors of States other than the Governor of the State of Vir-
ginia. [S B 82]

Approved February 26, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the genera! assembly of Virginia, That all cer-
tificates of acknowledgments to deeds and other writings heretofore
taken and certified by commissioners of deeds of States other than Vir-
ginia, appointed or commissioned by the Governor of such State, shall
be held, and the same are hereby declared valid and effective in all
respects, if otherwise valid according to the law then in force; and all
such deeds and other writings which have been admitted to record in
any clerk’s office in the State of Virginia, upon such certificates, shall
be held to be duly and regularly recorded if such recordation be other-
wise valid according to the law then in force.

2. All acts or parts of ‘acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

3. An emergency existing to validate any such deeds so recorded,
this act shall take effect from its passage.