Volume 15
Public Law 40–IX
in Relation to the Acknowledgment of Deeds in the District of Columbia.
Approved March 26, 1867
Statutory text
An Act
in Relation to the Acknowledgment of Deeds in the District of Columbia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
Deeds for the conveyance of real estate in the District of Columbia, how may be acknowledged.
That hereafter acknowledgments of deeds for the conveyance of real estate in the District of Columbia may be taken by the recorder of deeds for said District, or by a single justice of the peace; and any such acknowledgment heretofore taken by a single justice of the peace is hereby made and declared to be a valid
Former conveyances.
acknowledgment: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be held to impair the title of bona fide purchasers who, by conveyances and formal acknowledgments, have, prior to the passage of this act, acquired paramount titles under existing laws.
Approved, .