Chap. 174.—An ACT to amend and reenact Section 5205-a, as amended, of the
Code of Virginia relating to certain certificates of acknowledgment. [H 153]

Approved March 10, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section fifty-two hundred five-a, as amended, of the
Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as follows:

Section 5205-a. Acknowledgments taken before commissioned
officers 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, or the consort of
such person, 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.

| eee , 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 ..............-.-.e+ssececreceeeereees , 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 ................ Day Of -2..neeceeeeececeey coceeeeeeees ,
and who, or whose consort, 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 .....0........cccccccccsseeeeseeeceeees , has (or
have) acknowledged the same before me.
Given under my hand this ................ ay Of oo... eeeeeeliecesceey ceeeeceeecers

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. Such commissioned officer may take
the acknowledgment of any person in any branch of the armed
forces of the United States, or the consort of such person.

2. An emergency exists, and this act shall be in force from its
passage.