NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 48
HOUSE BILL 44

AN ACT TO VALIDATE CERTAIN OFFICIAL ACTS PERFORMED BY J. V. STEWART, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE OF CATAWBA COUNTY.

WHEREAS, J. V. Stewart, Justice of the Peace in Catawba County, was duly elected in the November 1958 general election for a term of two years, failed to qualify as provided by statute, continued to perform the acts of the office to which he was elected but for which he did not qualify: Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That each and all of the purported official acts of J. V. Stewart, Justice of the Peace in Catawba County, duly elected in the November 1958 general election, performed without first having qualified for the office and before he was duly elected in the November 1960 general election and thereafter qualified, including all judgments rendered, acknowledgments taken, marriages performed and any and all other 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 contained hereby 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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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.