Pennsylvania Act 1859-355 — AUTHENTICATION OF LETTERS OF ATTORNEY AND OTHER OFFICES

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AUTHENTICATION OF LETTERS OF ATTORNEY AND OTHER OFFICES
                  Act of Apr. 2, 1859, P.L. 352, No. 355              Cl. 68
                               A SUPPLEMENT

     To an act, entitled "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," approved the fourteenth day of December, one
        thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.

        Section 1.  Ambassadors, public ministers, etc.
        All ambassadors, ministers plenipotentiary, charges d-
     affaires, or other persons exercising public ministerial
     functions, duly appointed by the United States of America, shall
     have full power and authority to take all acknowledgments and
     proofs of any deeds, conveyances, settlements, mortgages,
     agreements, powers of attorney, or other instruments under seal
     relating to real or personal estate, made or executed in any
     Foreign County or State, by any person or persons, or by husband
     and wife, in the manner and according to the forms required by
     the Laws of this Commonwealth, and to administer all oaths or
     affirmations necessary or required for the purposes aforesaid;
     and that all acknowledgments and proofs heretofore made by any
     or either of the persons aforesaid, before any of the officers
     aforesaid, in the manner and according to the forms aforesaid,
     are hereby ratified and confirmed, and the same, and the records
     of the instruments aforesaid, if the said instruments have been
     heretofore recorded, are declared to be as valid and effectual
     as if the said acknowledgments, proofs and records had been
     respectively made, taken and recorded under the provisions
     hereof.  1859, April 2, P.L. 352, Sec. 1.