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Show 5 by tho Secretary of the Interior, or by the President, must accompany such deed. (-1) When tho docd is acknowledged before an officer other than an Indian agent or superintendent, it must bo accompanied (in lieu of the certificate of the Indian agent in other cases required) by a certificate of tho officer taking tho acknowledgment as to the facts required to bo certified by tho Indian agent; or, if such facts shall not bo known to such officor, thoy must bo verified by the affidavits of at least two crediblo disinterested persons who are cognizant of these facts, whose veracity "must be certified by such ollicer. (5) Where those rules specify two or more officers or other persons to perform certain duties, preference must, in all cases, be given to such officers or persons in the order named. (<>). The affidavits of (bo grantors and the grantees must accompany such deed, showing- Unit there is no contract, agreement, nor understanding (written or verbal) whereby the consideration money or price paid for the land, or any portion thereof, is to bo refunded to the purchaser after the approval of tho deed; nor any livo stock, implements, other arficlo or thing, aro to booxchanged or taken in liou of said consideration money or purchase price, or any portion thereof, for such land.' Each dood must bo accompanied by an affidavit of the grantee, stating that ho is not a party to any association or combination of porsons to acquiro lands under said law at less than their fair valuo or to provont open and fair competition in tho purchase and salo of lands; that he is not directly or indirectly connected with or interested in any dovice, schemo, or jdan to'prevent or interfere writh fair competition in tho purchase of such lands or to securo them at less than their fair market value, and that the contract under which the deed presented for approval was executed was not procured through or by means of any such plan or schemo; that such contract was not secured through false representations to tho grantor, or suppression of facts as to the value of tho land or as to any other foaturo of tho transaction, and that neither the grantor nor anyono acting for him or in his place has been given or promised any money or other thing by tho granteo, or by anyono with his advico, consent, or knowledge, except the consideration named in tho doed, to induce him to agree to such salo of his land. (7) The tostimony and all papers' pertaining to tho conveyance must bo properly authenticated under seal, and in all other rcspocts tho conveyance must conform to thoso rules. IV. When tho land conveyed, or any part thorcof, is loss than a legal subdivision, or docs not conform to the public survey, a diagram prepared by n competent surveyor, or an authenticated r - 1 1 1 |
