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and bona fide as therein set forth; this affidavit may be made at
any time before the mortgage is recorded, before any one author-
ized to take the acknowledgment of a mortgage, and the affi-
davit shall be recorded with the mortgage.
30. The affidavit required by the preceding section may be
made by one of several mortgagees, and shall have the same
effect as if made by all, or the said affidavit may be made by any
agent of a mortgagee, and when made by an agent he shall, in
addition to the affidavit above mentioned, make affidavit to be
endorsed upon the mortgage that he is agent of the mortgagee" or
mortgagees, or some one of them, which affidavit shall be suffi-
cient proof of such agency, and the president or other officer of
a corporation, or the executor of the mortgagee, may make such
affidavit.
31. An assignment of a mortgage may be made in the follow-
ing form, or to the like effect:
"I hereby assign the within mortgage to (the assignee.)
"Witness my hand and seal, this day of.
[SEAL.]"
32 Every assignment made in the above form, or the same in
substance, endorsed upon the original mortgage, shall be con-
strued and deemed sufficient to convey to the assignee every
right which the assignor- possessed under said mortgage at the
time of the assignment thereof, in as full and ample a manner as
any instrument of writing whatever could do.
33. A release of a mortgage may be made in the following
form, or to the like effect:
" I hereby release the above (or within) mortgage.
" Witness my hand and seal this day of .
[SEAL.]"
34. Such release may be written by the mortgagee, or his
assignee, upon the record in the office where the mortgage is
recorded, and attested by the clerk of the court; and the clerk,
at the time of recording every mortgage, shall leave a blank
space at the foot thereof for the purpose of entering such release.
35. Or, such a release may be endorsed on the original mort-
gage by the mortgagee or his assignee; and upon such mort-
gage, with the release thereon endorsed, being filed in the office
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