Pennsylvania Act 1855-645 — FOREIGN ACKNOWLEDGMENTS - ALLOWING FOR

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FOREIGN ACKNOWLEDGMENTS - ALLOWING FOR
              Act of Dec. 14, (1854) 1855, P.L. 724, No. 645          Cl. 68
                                  AN ACT

     Relating to the authentication of Letters of Attorney, Protests
     of Notaries Public, and Assignments made out of the State, and
     to the Acknowledgment of Deeds.
        Section 1.  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
     Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General
     Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the
     same, That all letters of attorney authorizing contracts to be
     made, the adjustment of accounts, the sale of stocks and
     personal estate, the receipt of moneys, or the discharge and
     acquittance of legacies, or distributive shares, when executed,
     proved or acknowledged in other states or foreign countries, by
     any person, or husband and wife, in manner authorized to allow
     letters of attorney for the conveyance of real estate to be put
     on record, or if proved or acknowledged in like manner before
     any minister, consul or vice consul of the United States, or
     officer thereof exercising ministerial or consular functions, or
     before a notary public in foreign countries, and duly certified
     under his official seal, may be placed of record in the recorder
     of deed's office, in any county where the powers conferred by
     such letters are intended to be exercised and receivable in
     evidence in courts of justice, as also the exemplifications from
     the record thereof, when the originals shall have been lost.
        Section 2.  (2 repealed Apr. 28, 1978, P.L.202, No.53)
        Section 3.  Deeds duly executed and acknowledged out of the
     State may be recorded. Any and every grant, bargain and sale,
     release or other deed of conveyance or assurance of any lands,
     tenements or hereditaments in this Commonwealth, and any power
     or powers of attorney to make and execute such sale, conveyance,
     mortgage or transfer of any lands, tenements or hereditaments in
     this Commonwealth, made and executed in any of the United
     States, may be recorded in the county in which such lands,
     tenements or hereditaments are situated, if the acknowledgment
     thereof be taken in due form before any officer or magistrate of
     the state wherein such deed, et cetera, is executed, authorized
     by the laws of said state to take the acknowledgment of deeds or
     other instruments of writing therein; and such acknowledgment is
     either verified by the official seal of the officer or
     magistrate before whom it is taken or authenticated by a
     certificate of the clerk or prothonotary of any court of record
     in such state, that the officer or magistrate so taking such
     acknowledgment, is duly qualified by law to take the same.
        (3 amended May 14, 1957, P.L.136, No.59)