**Exhibit 31****CERTIFICATIONS**I, Patrick L. Beach, certify that:1. I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-QSB of Captec Franchise Capital PartnersL.P. III;2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material factor omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of thecircumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the periodcovered by this report;3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included inthis report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operationsand cash flows of the small business issuer as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;4. The small business issuer’s other certifying officers and I are responsible for establishingand maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules13(a)-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the small business issuer, and have:     (a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls andprocedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating tothe small business issuer, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by otherswithin those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;     (b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal controlover financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assuranceregarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements forexternal purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;     (c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the small business issuer’s disclosure controls andprocedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosurecontrols and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on suchevaluation; and     (d) Disclosed in this report any change in the small business issuer’s internal control overfinancial reporting that occurred during the small business issuer’s most recent fiscal quarterthat has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the small businessissuer’s internal control over financial reporting; and5. The small business issuer’s other certifying officers and I have disclosed, based on our mostrecent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the small business issuer’sauditors and the audit committee of the small business issuer’s board of directors (or personsperforming the equivalent functions):     (a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation ofinternal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the smallbusiness issuer’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and     (b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have asignificant role in the small business issuer’s internal control over financial reporting.Date: August 15, 2005     By: /s/ Patrick L. Beach         Patrick L. Beach    President, GP3 Asset Acquisition, LLC  The foregoing certification is required by Section 302(a) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 andamended Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which require that thewording of such certification must appear exactly as set forth by the Rules. GP3 Asset Acquisition,LLC is a single member limited liability company, the sole member of which is a limited liabilitycompany of which Patrick L. Beach is the sole and managing member. As a result, neither thePartnership or GP3 Asset Acquisition, LLC has a board of directors or audit committee and PatrickL. Beach is the only certifying officer and is ultimately responsible for establishing andmaintaining the small business issuer’s disclosure controls.
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