Pennsylvania Act 1947-237 — VALIDATING COUNTY TREASURERS' DEEDS

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VALIDATING COUNTY TREASURERS' DEEDS
                 Act of Jun. 10, 1947, P.L. 520, No. 237              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 any officer duly
        authorized by law to take acknowledgments.

        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 acknowledgment of such
     deed by the county treasurer was defective in any respect, or
     where such deed was not acknowledged in open court, 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, or by
     reason of the fact that such deed was not acknowledged in open
     court, or by reason of the fact that the records of the court
     fail to show a minute of such acknowledgment in open court, 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 any officer duly authorized by law to take
     acknowledgments; 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
     commissioner 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.