CHAPTER 713

AN ACT to amend the Code:of Virginia by adding a section numbered
55-184.1, to validate certain certificates of acknowledgment to deeds
and other writings.

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Approved March 31, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
55-134.1 as follows:

§ 55-184.1. All certificates of acknowledgment to deeds and other
writings taken and certified prior to March one, nineteen hundred and
fifty-six, by a person who was appointed as a Notary Public for the State
at large by the Governor but who failed to qualify as provided by law
shall be held, and the same are hereby declared valid and effective in all
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pects, if otherwise valid, and all such deeds and other writings which
e been admitted to record in any clerk’s office in the State upon such
ificates shall be held to be duly and regularly recorded, if such recorda-
1 be otherwise valid according to law; provided, however, that nothing
pe section shall be so construed as to affect any intervening vested
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An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.