Chap. 195.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5209 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, providing when notaries or other officers who hold stock in companies,
or are officers thereof, or both, may take acknowledgments to deeds or other
writings, which said companies execute, or which are executed to or for the
benefit of such companies, if not otherwise interested. {[H B 23]

Approved March 18, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion fifty-two hundred and nine of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 5209. No acknowledgment heretofore taken to any deed
or any writing executed by a company, or for the benefit of a com-
pany, shall be held to be invalid by reason of the said acknowlegment
having been taken by a notary or other officer duly authorized to
take acknowledgments who, at the time of taking said acknowleg-
ment, was a stockholder, an officer, or both, ia the company which
executed said deed or writing, or for the benefit of which said deed or
writing was executed, but who was not otherwise interested in the
property conveyed or disposed of by said deed or writing; and such
deed or other writing, and the recordation thereof, shall be valid in
all respects as if this section had been in force when it was executed.

And hereafter any notary or other officer duly authorized to take
acknowledgments, may take the acknowledgment to any deed or
other writing, executed by a company, or to a company or for the
benefit of a company, although he may be a stockholder, an officer,
or both, in such company; provided he is not otherwise interested in
the property conveyed or disposed of by said deed or other writing;
and nothing herein shall be construed to hereafter authorize any
officer to take an acknowledgment to any deed or other writing exe-
cuted. by such company by and through him as an officer or stock-
holder thereof, or to him for the benefit of such company.