VALIDATING ACTS BY JUSTICES OF THE PEACE
                  Act of Mar. 24, 1899, P.L. 20, No. 16               Cl. 68
                                  AN ACT

     To validate acts and acknowledgments of certain justices of the
        peace, holding office de facto and not de jure.

        Section 1.  Ward justices in boroughs
        All the acts and acknowledgments of deeds, mortgages and
     other instruments of writing, made in good faith, and in the
     regular course of business, by the several justices of the
     peace, in boroughs incorporated under the act of third april,
     one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, or accepting its
     provisions, and divided into wards under the act of fourteenth
     May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, and elected as
     ward justices in said boroughs, shall be taken and accepted as
     valid and good in law.  1899, March 24, P.L. 20, Sec. 1.