Chap. 302.—An ‘ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section
numbered 5205-a, permitting certain writings to be admitted to record upon
certificates of acknowledgment signed by certain commissioned officers of the
United States army, navy, marine corps, coast guard, or other branch of the
military service. [H B 420]

Approved March 30, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the
Code of Virginia be amended by adding a new section numbered fifty-
two hundred and five-a, as follows:

Section 5205-a. Acknowledgments taken before commissioned of-
ficers in military service——Such court or clerk shall also admit any such
writing to record as to any person whose name is signed thereto who at the
time of such acknowledgment was in active service in the armed forces of
the United States, upon the certificate of any commissioned officer of the
army, navy, marine corps, coast guard, or other branch of the service of
which such person is a member, that such writing had been acknowledged
before him by such person, which certificate shall be written upon or
annexed to said writing substantially to the following effect:

In the army (or navy, etc.) of the United States.

T, ceeeeceeee cece cceeceeecceeeceeceeeeeeeeseeeeseeeeees , a commissioned officer of the army
(or navy, marine corps, coast guard, or other branch of service) of the
United States with the rank of lieutenant (or ensign or other appropriate
rank) whose home address Is .............--..---22::---cceeceeeeeeseeeeeeeee , do certify that
E. F. (or E. F. and G. H., and so forth), whose name (or names) is (or
are) signed to the writing above (or hereto annexed), bearing date on the
— ay Of one eeeeeeececeeeeeeeeeeceeeey eeeeeesees+-y ann who is a private (corporal,
seaman, captain, or other grade or rank) in the army (or navy, etc.) of
the United States, and whose home address Is ............2--.-2-----eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees ,
has (or have) acknowledged the same before me.

Given under my hand this ........ ck ae

Such acknowledgment may be taken at any place where the officer
taking the acknowledgment and the person whose name is signed to the
writing may be. No such commissioned officer shall take the acknowl-
edgment of any person in any branch of the military service except the
branch (army, navy, etc.) in which he is commissioned.

2. This act shall remain in full force and effect until July first, nine-
teen hundred and forty-four.

3. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.