**EXHIBIT        31.1**
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**Manaris        Corporation **

**CERTIFICATION        PURSUANT TO SARBANES-OXLEY SECTION 302**
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| (a) | Designed                  such disclosure controls and procedures or caused such disclosure                  controls                  and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure                  that                  material information relating to the issuer including its                  consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within                  those                  entities, particularly during the period in which this report is                  being                  prepared; and   |
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| (b)    | Evaluated                  the effectiveness of the issuer's disclosure controls and procedures                  and                  presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness                  of the                  disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period                  covered by                  this report based on such evaluation; and   |
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| (c)    | Disclosed                  in this report any change in the issuer's internal control over                  financial                  reporting that occurred during the issuer's most recent fiscal                  quarter                  (the issuer's fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report)                  that                  has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially                  affect, the                  issuer's internal control over financial reporting;   |
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| (a)    | All                  significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design                  or                  operation of internal control over financial reporting which are                  reasonably likely to adversely affect the issuer's ability to record,                  process, summarize and report financial information; and   |
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| (b)    | Any                  fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other                  employees who have a significant role in the issuer's internal                  controls                  over financial reporting.   |
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|                                       | **Manaris                  Corporation**               |
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| Date: October                13, 2005 | By:                                          | /s/ John                G. Fraser |
|                                       | John                G. Fraser                          |
|                                       | President                  and Chief Executive Officer |

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