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1. The governor shall have power to appoint or more commissioners in any state of the United States of the territories belonging to the United States, who s continue in office during the pleasure of the governor, shall have authority to take the acknowledgment and pu of the execution of any deed, or other conveyance, or lease any lands lying in this territory, and of any contract, lette attorney, or any other writing under seal or not, to be u or recorded in this territory.

. 2. Such acknowledgment or proof, so taken, acco ing to the laws of this territory, and certified to by any s commissioner under his seal of office, and annexed to or dorsed on such instrument, shall have the same power effect as if the same had been made before any officer aut ized to perform such acts in this territory.

. 3. Every commissioner, appointed as before m tioned, shall have power to administer an oath which may lawfully required in this territory to any person willing take the same, and to take and duly certify all depositions be used in any of the courts of this territory in conformity the laws thereof, either on interrogatories proposed unde commission from any court of this territory, or by consen parties, or on legal notice given to the opposite party; all such acts shall be as valid as if done and certified acci ing to law by a proper officer in this territory.

. 4. Every such commissioner, before performing duty, or exercising any power by virtue of his appointm