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[CITE: 48USC1663]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                        CHAPTER 13--EASTERN SAMOA
 
Sec. 1663. 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 is also classified to section 1421f-1 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.


                            Cross References

    Similar provisions relating to Guam, see section 1421f-1 of this 
title.
