Chapter 174.
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CHAP. 174.— An act to validate and confirm certain acknowledgments of deeds and other instruments of writing under seal made in a foreign country for lands lying in the District of Columbia, and the records thereof. March 3, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That all acknowledgments ofDistrict of Columbia deeds and other instruments of writing under seal heretofore made in a foreign country, before any secretary of legation, consul, or consularForeign acknowledgments of deeds. officer of the United States, for lands lying in the District of Columbia, are hereby validated and confirmed, and the same, and the records of the said deeds and instruments, if the said deeds and instruments have been recorded, are declared to be as good and effectual, in behalf of the grantees therein named, and all persons claiming through or under them, as if the said acknowledgments and records had been respectively made and recorded under the provisions of existing laws: *Provided,* That*Proviso*. nothing in this act shall be construed divest just rights already ac 354 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 174, 175, 176. 1879. quired in good faith by creditors of or purchase’s from the grantors in such deeds or instruments. Approved, March 3, 1879.