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stead to (here state the thing that it is desired to author- 

 ize the agent to do — as, for example, receive all pay- 

 ments upon account, or, have charge of property, or, 

 whatever it may be), with full power of substitution 

 and revocation; hereby ratifying and confirming all 

 that my said attorney or his substitute may lawfully do 

 in the premises. 



Witness my hand and seal this 1st day of August, 

 1902. (L. S.) 



In the presence of: 



II. AFFIDAVITS 



An affidavit is a statement reduced to writing 

 and sworn or affirmed to before some competent 

 authority. Great care should be taken in draw- 

 ing affidavits that they contain all of the facts 

 that they are intended to prove, as it very fre- 

 quently happens that some very important fact 

 is found omitted when it becomes necessary 

 to use the affidavit. A very good way of secur- 

 ing a complete affidavit when the services of 

 your lawyer are not available, is to write a formal 

 heading, as given below, and let the person who 

 is to make the affidavit write in all that he can 

 remember about the matter in hand, after which 

 talk the matter over carefully and see if any- 

 thing has been omitted. If it has, add it to the 

 matter already written and then write the formal 



