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[CITE: 48USC742]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                         CHAPTER 4--PUERTO RICO
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 742. Acknowledgment of deeds

    Deeds and other instruments affecting land situate in the District 
of Columbia, or any other territory or possession of the United States, 
may be acknowledged in Puerto Rico before any notary public appointed 
therein by proper authority, or any officer therein who has ex officio 
the powers of a notary public. The certificate by such notary shall be 
accompanied by the certificate of the executive secretary of Puerto Rico 
to the effect that the notary taking such acknowledgment is in fact such 
notarial officer.

(Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 145, Sec. 54, 39 Stat. 968; May 17, 1932, ch. 190, 47 
Stat. 158.)

                          Codification

    Section is also set out in D.C. Code, Sec. 45-606.


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in act 
Mar. 22, 1902, ch. 273, 32 Stat. 88, except that that act required the 
certificate of the attorney general of Puerto Rico, rather than of the 
executive secretary of Puerto Rico as required by this section.

                         Change of Name

    ``Puerto Rico'' substituted in text for ``Porto Rico'' pursuant to 
act May 17, 1932, which is classified to section 731a of this title.
