Pennsylvania Act 1901-179 — DEEDS, ACKNOWLEDGMENT IN UNITED STATES TERRITORIES

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DEEDS, ACKNOWLEDGMENT IN UNITED STATES TERRITORIES
                  Act of May 21, 1901, P.L. 271, No. 179              Cl. 68
                                  AN ACT

     To provide for the acknowledgment of deeds and other instruments
        of writing, concerning property in Pennsylvania, which may
        hereafter be taken in Cuba and in Porto Rico, the Philippine
        Islands, or other possessions of the United States; and to
        validate such acknowledgments heretofore taken.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That all deeds, mortgages or
     other instruments of writing, heretofore made or which may
     hereafter be made by any person or corporation, concerning
     lands, tenements, hereditaments or property, or any estate or
     interest therein, lying or being within this Commonwealth,
     heretofore acknowledged or proved, or which may hereafter be
     acknowledged or proved, in the manner directed and provided by
     the laws of this Commonwealth, before any person holding the
     rank of major or any higher rank in the military service of the
     United States in Cuba, or in Porto Rico, the Philippine Islands,
     or other possessions of the United States, whether in the
     regular or volunteer service, or before any civil officer in the
     service of the United States in any of the said places
     hereinbefore referred to, shall be valid to all intents and
     purposes, and be in like manner entitled to be recorded as if
     the same had been duly acknowledged and proven before a notary
     public or other officer within this Commonwealth having
     authority to take such proofs or acknowledgments according to
     the existing laws of this Commonwealth. And where any such
     instruments, so acknowledged before the officers hereinbefore
     referred to, have heretofore been admitted to record in the
     proper office of this Commonwealth, the record thereof shall be
     as good and valid as if same had been recorded subsequent to the
     passage of this act: Provided, That this act shall not apply to
     any case in which an action is now pending or has been
     heretofore judicially determined: And provided further, That the
     proof of the official character of the person taking such
     acknowledgment shall be his official seal, if he have one; and
     if not, then a certificate under the seal of any officer of the
     United States who has an official seal, in any of said places.