Pennsylvania Statutes Title 21 P.S. Deeds and Mortgages § 153. Treasurers, commissioners, executors, etc., may acknowledge before any authorized officer

Hereafter it shall and may be lawful for county treasurers, county commissioners, executors, administrators, trustees, or other persons acting in any official or representative capacity, where now required or authorized by law to acknowledge deeds or other instruments before a justice of the peace, to acknowledge the same before a notary public or any other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds; and any acknowledgments of deeds or other instruments, heretofore made as authorized hereby, are validated and made good and effectual: Provided, That this act shall not apply to any case heretofore adjudicated, or in which proceedings at law or in equity are now pending.