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[CITE: 48USC1421f-1]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                            CHAPTER 8A--GUAM
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 1421f-1. Acknowledgment of deeds

    Deeds and other instruments affecting land situate in the District 
of Columbia or any Territory of the United States may be acknowledged in 
the islands of Guam and Samoa or in the Canal Zone before any notary 
public or judge appointed therein by proper authority, or by any officer 
therein who has ex officio the powers of a notary public: Provided, That 
the certificate by such notary in Guam, Samoa, or the Canal Zone, as the 
case may be, shall be accompanied by the certificate of the governor or 
acting governor of such place to the effect that the notary taking said 
acknowledgment was in fact the officer he purported to be; and any deeds 
or other instruments affecting lands so situate, so acknowledged since 
the first day of January, 1905, and accompanied by such certificate 
shall have the same effect as such deeds or other instruments hereafter 
so acknowledged and certified.

(June 28, 1906, ch. 3585, 34 Stat. 552.)

                       References in Text

    For definition of Canal Zone, referred to in text, see section 
3602(b) of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.

                          Codification

    Section was not enacted as part of the Organic Act of Guam which 
comprises this chapter.
    Section is also classified to section 1663 of this title.
    Section was formerly classified to sections 1358 and 1432 of this 
title.
    Section is also set out in D.C. Code, Sec. 45-605.
