Pennsylvania Act 1941-19 — VALIDATING COUNTY TREASURERS' DEEDS

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VALIDATING COUNTY TREASURERS' DEEDS
                   Act of May 5, 1941, P.L. 38, No. 19                Cl. 68
                                  AN ACT

     Validating county treasurers' deeds where the acknowledgment of
        such deed or deeds was defective in any respect, if, in fact,
        such acknowledgment was taken before a judge of the county.

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

        Section 1.  Whenever heretofore any land has been sold by the
     county treasurer of any county for the purpose of securing the
     payment of delinquent taxes which were assessed and levied
     against such land, and the county treasurer in pursuance of such
     sale executed a deed for said lands, and the acknowledgment of
     such deed by the county treasurer was defective in any respect,
     or where the records of the court failed to show a minute of
     such acknowledgment in open court, such sale and such deed shall
     not be invalidated by reason of such defective acknowledgment,
     if, in all other respects, the laws relating to the holding of
     such sale were fully complied with and the deed was, in fact,
     acknowledged before a judge of said county; and all such
     treasurers' sales and treasurers' deeds are hereby ratified,
     confirmed and validated; and the title to any such land
     purchased by any person or by the county commissioners of any
     county at such treasurers' sale and the deed executed and
     acknowledged to such purchaser is hereby declared to be as valid
     as if such deed had been acknowledged in open court and a proper
     minute thereof made in full conformity with the law relating
     thereto.
        Section 2.  This act shall become effective immediately upon
     final enactment.