NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 47

HOUSE BILL 43

 

 

AN ACT TO VALIDATE CERTAIN ACTS PERFORMED BETWEEN MAY 3, 1960, AND JANUARY 23, 1961, BY FRED W. AMOS, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE OF CATAWBA COUNTY.

 

WHEREAS, Fred W. Amos, Justice of the Peace in Catawba County, appointed by the Resident Judge of the Twenty-Fifth Judicial District, for a term of two years, continued to perform acts of his office after the expiration of his term: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. That each and all of the purported official acts of Fred W. Amos, Justice of the Peace in Catawba County, appointed by the Resident Judge of the Twenty-Fifth Judicial District, performed after the expiration of his term on May 3, 1960 and until January 23, 1961, including all judgments rendered, acknowledgments taken, marriages performed and any and all other official acts whatsoever, be, and the same are hereby in all respects validated, ratified and confirmed to the same extent that they would have been valid had he been a duly qualified Justice of the Peace during said period.

Sec. 2. Nothing herein contained shall affect pending litigation.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th day of March, 1961.