The statute provides several forms for the acknowledgment of instruments for natural persons acting in their own right, for natural persons acting by attorney and for corporations or join stock associations. Those forms are as follows:

(1) Beginning in all cases by a caption specifying the state and county where the acknowledgment is taken.

(a) In the case of natural persons acting in their own right:

On this........ day of.................... 19.-, before me personally appeared A. B. (or A. B. and C. D.), to me known to be the person or persons described in and who executed the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged that he (or they) executed the same as his (or their) free act and deed.

(2) In the case of natural persons acting by attorney:

On this........ day of.................... 19-. before me personally appeared A. B. to me known to be the person who executed the foregoing instrument in behalf of C. D. and acknowledged that he executed the same as the free act and deed of said C. D.

(3) In case of corporations or joint stock associations:

On this ........ day of...................., 19...., before me appeared

A. B. to me personally known, who being by me duly sworn (or affirmed), did say that he is the president (or other officer or agent of the corporation or association), of (describing the corporation or association) and that the seal affixed to said instrument is the corporate seal of said corporation (or association), and that said instrument was signed and sealed in behalf of said corporation (or association) by authority of its board of directors (or trustees) and said A. B. acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and deed of said corporation (or association).

In case the corporation or association has no corporate seal, omit the words "the seal affixed to said instrument is the corporate seal of said corporation (or association), and that" and add, at the end of the affidavit clause, the words "and that said corporation (or association) has no corporate seal."

In all cases add signature and title of the officer taking the acknowledgment.

Sec. 51. Authentication Of Written Instruments Executed Outside Of The State

The statute provides a form of authentication of deeds or other written instruments when taken outside this state and within any other state or territory or district of the United States.23 In case the acknowledgment has been taken by a notary public of any other state (or territory), his notarial seal attached to the instrument will be a sufficient authentication, and such instrument may be read in evidence in a court of this state or recorded without any additional certificate. If the magistrate be one not possessed of a seal such as a justice of the peace, or other official, then the instrument must be authenticated in accordance with the form laid down in the statute.