ART. 24.] CONVEYANCING. 133

5. If acknowledged without the United States, the acknow-
ledgment may be made before:
1st. Any Minister or Consul of the United States.

2d. Any notary public.

3d. A commissioner of this State to take acknowledgment of
deeds.

6. Every officer, before whom any acknowledgment shall be
made, shall give a certificate thereof and endorse on or annex to
the deed such certificate, and the certificate shall be recorded
with the deed.

7. To every certificate of acknowledgment, taken without
this State before the judge of any court having a seal, the seal
of such court shall be affixed.

8. The certificate of acknowledgment shall contain:

1st. The name of the person making the acknowledgment.

2d. The official style of the officer taking the acknowledg-
ment.

3d. The time when it was taken.

4th. A statement that the grantor acknowledged the deed to
be his act, or made an acknowledgment to the like effect.

9. All deeds conveying real estate which shall contain the
names of the grantor and grantee, or bargainer and bargainee, a
consideration in cases where a consideration is necessary to the
validity of a deed, and a description of the real estate sufficient
to identify the same with reasonable certainty, and the interest
or estate intended thereby to be conveyed, shall be sufficient, if
executed, acknowledged and recorded as herein required.

10. Every deed conveying real estate shall be signed and
sealed by the grantor or bargainer and attested by at least one
witness.

11. No words of inheritance shall be necessary to create an
estate in fee simple, but every conveyance of real estate shall
be construed to pass a fee simple estate, unless a contrary inten-
tion shall appear by express terms or be necessarily implied
therein.

12. The word " grant," the phrase " bargain and sell," in a
deed, or any other words purporting to transfer the whole estate