Chapter CCIV. *to authorize Notaries Public in the District of Columbia to take Acknowledgments of Deeds of Conveyance of real and personal Estate therein.* June 23, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That all the powers conferre
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Chap. CCIV.— An Act *to authorize Notaries Public in the District of Columbia to take Acknowledgments of Deeds of Conveyance of real and personal Estate therein.* June 23, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That all the powers conferred Notaries Public in District of Columbia may take acknowledgment of deeds. 1801. ch. 15, § 11. Vol. ii. p. 107.upon a justice or justices of the peace in the District of Columbia by the existing laws, in the acknowledgment of deeds for the conveyance of real or personal estate, may hereafter be exercised by any notary-public duly appointed within said District of Columbia, and when certified under the hand and official seal of such notary-public, shall have the same force and effect as if taken or made by or before a justice or justices of the peace of said District.
Approved, June 23, 1860.