§ 168. Appointments published.-Provision is made in some statutes for the publication of the names of commissioners appointed, as in California, where the names of all persons appointed are to be published three times in some weekly newspaper published at the seat of government of the State. There is a similar provision in South Carolina, where notice of appointment is to be given in "one or more gazettes of the State." 2 The statute in Iowa prescribes that the Secretary of State shall cause to be published with the session laws of each general assembly, a full and complete list of all commissioners for Iowa, who are duly qualified, and whose commissions do not expire on or before the 4th of July of the year in which such publication is made, which list shall give the post-office address, date of qualification, and date of expiration of the commission of each commissioner.8 And in North Carolina there is a similar requirement, and the Secretary of State is to cause to be printed a list in the Acts of the General Assembly.4

1 Pol. Code, Sec. 816.
2 Rev. Stat. p. 113.

8 Code, p. 43.

1 Battle's Dig. p. 251.

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FORMS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

The following forms have been carefully selected, and compared with the requirements of the statutes in each State. Where the statutes have prescribed forms, these have been given, and the fact noted. It will be seen, on reference to Sec. 49 of this work, that in twenty-two of the States of the Union married women are required to make a private acknowledgment. These States are: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia; and forms are given for such acknowledgments under these States. By a recent statute in Alabama, (Stat. 1872–3, p. 65) married women are required to make a private acknowledgment in a conveyance of a homestead in Alabama, and the statute prescribes a form, which is here given under Alabama.

In some certificates of acknowledgment, the officer concludes with the formal part—“In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and official seal," etc.; but unless the certificate is given to be used out of the State, this formal part is conceived to be unnecessary.

With regard to acknowledgments by corporations, we should observe that, in some of the older States, there is a form required, as in New York, which is based on the old rule, which attached great importance to the seal, and here the officer making the acknowledgment on behalf of the corporation is required to give proof of the seal. But this is now obsolete; the general practice is now to require an acknowledgment simply by the president, or other agent of the corporation, on its behalf, the same as any other attorney would acknowledge for and on behalf of his principal, as for instance in the form given under California, which may be considered a general form of this class. In a few cases, the old style of acknowledgment of a corporation is retained, and these cases will be found under the States using such forms.