DOBIE, Circuit Judge.
This appeal raises the single question of the validity of two chattel mortgages. Both the Referee in Bankruptcy and the United States District Court held these mortgages to be void, on the ground that the affidavit of consideration, attached to each mortgage, failed to comply with the essential requisites of the applicable New Jersey statute.
The New Jersey Statute provides:
"46:28-5. Necessity of record of mortgage with affidavit...
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