Chapter 69.
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CHAP. 69.— AN ACT providing for the recording of deeds, mortgages, and other conveyances affecting real estate in the District of Columbia.April 29, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,R. S. D. C. 446, 447, p. 52, repealed That sections four hundred and forty-six and four hundred and forty-seven of the Revised Statutes re- 40 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. On. 69,72, 73,74. 1818. lating to the District of Columbia, passed at the first session of the Forty-third Congress, eighteen hundred and seventy-three and eighteen hundred and seventy-four, be, and the same hereby are, repealed, and there is enacted in lieu thereof the following:
All deeds, deeds of trust, mortgages, conveyances, covenants, agreements,Deeds, etc., to take effect on delivery to recorder, as against creditors, etc.Act applied. or any instrument of writing which by law is entitled to be recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds, shall take effect and be valid, as to creditors and as to subsequent purchasers for valuable consideration without notice, from the time when such deed, deed of trust, mortgage, conveyance, covenant, agreement, or instrument in writing shall, after having been acknowledged, proved, or certified, as the case may be, be delivered to the recorder of deeds for record, and from that time only; and the recorder of deeds shall note on each deed or other instrument of writing required by law to be recorded, the day and hour of delivery of the same to him to be recorded.
Sec. 2. That this act shall not be so construed as to affect any deed or other instrument of writing heretofore recorded. Approved, April 29, 1878.