Chap. 104.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to validate
certain certificates of acknowledgments to deeds and other writings recorded
in Virginia, taken by commissioners of deeds appointed by governors of
states other than the governor of Virginia, approved February 26, 1924, so
as to include notanes public appointed by the governor of Virginia.

[S B 118]

Approved March 6, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That all
certificates of acknowledgments to deeds and other writings hereto-
fore taken and certified by commissioners of deeds of States other than
Virginia, appointed or commissioned by the governor of such State
and by notaries public appointed or commissioned by the governor
of the State of Virginia who took and certified such acknowledgments
after their term of office had expired, 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 writ-
ings 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 otherwise valid according
to the law then in force.

2. All acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby re-
pealed.

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