Chap. 453.—An ACT to validate any certificate of acknowledgement hereto-
fore taken by any notary public or other officer duly authorized to take
acknowledgments who at the time of taking such acknowledgment was
the husband or wife of the grantee in the deed or instrument to which
the certificate is attached. [fH B 424]

Approved March 24, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That any
certificate of acknowledgment to a deed and other writings heretofore
taken by a notary public or other officer duly authorized to take
acknowledgments, who at the time of taking said acknowledgment
was the husband or wife of the grantee in the said deed or other in-
strument shall be held, and the same is hereby declared valid and
effective in all respects, if otherwise valid according to the law then
in force.