The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1877-03-21


ANIMATION OF MARRIED WOMEN.
introduced by Senator Mebaie, Of Rock
ingham.
The General Asscmby Of North Carolina
do Enact.
SECTION /. That oil deeds, mortgages,
conveyances. releases, powers ofattorney.
contracts, or other writings required by
law to be registered, and the privy ex-
aminaiionof any married women as 20
her due execution Of any such instrument
may be acknowledged or approved or
taken ~ amy one of the following courts
or officers, namely: "A Superior Court
clerk ~ Justice ofthe Peace, ~ ans co.irt
OF record. having seal or any Judge,
jurtice or clerk of any such court. except
the Register of Deeds, an ex officio clerk
Of the board of county commissioners
SIC. 2. When such acknowledgment
proof or privy examination shall he taken
before court &c tile clerk iheieof, The
same shall he altrstrd by the seal Of such
curt, aud when taken before a Justice ot
the Peace, tl,e same shall, bsf0ie resisIra-
tiu,,, lr sdjudged 10 be correct and suiii-
cient Nv the clerk of tile salne court Of
record, totlier :l,nn the Register Of Deeds,
In the couniy where such justice may re-
side; aud whrn 10 be registered in any
coumty olhei than that in which taken,
such clerk in addition shall certify tint
such, Justice Was Justice Of the Peace ~
| his county at the time when the rronf
acknowledgment ar privy examination
WINS taken
sEc. 5. For the purpose of tbs act the
certificates of probate or ackhowiedge-
meut, shall ue substantially us follows:
STATE or NoRTH CARoLiSA,
- County.
u, A. B: (l,ere give nam. Of officer. clerk
Judge or Justice Of the peacr. ~ the case
may be. do hereby certify that there give
name 81 grantor. aud " acknowledged by
wife, her name. aud add his rye.) per-
sonalIy appeared before nie this day and
acknowledged the due execution Of the
foregoing tnr snnexedl deed % conveyance.
itor Other Instrument aud lif ihs wife i =
signer, tile said there give wife's nan,e,l
being by me privately examined, separate
and apart from her said husband. touching
her voluntary execution Of ll,rsanie. doth
state that she signed the same freely and
voluntarily, without fear or compulsion
Of her said husband or any other per-ot,
aud that size doth still Voluntarily assent
thereto. Witness my hand and seal
ipriyate 90 official n. The case may bel this
day of monlh) A. ID. tyearl.
signature Of officers.
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And when such proof or acknowledge-
ment has been had or taken hyajusiice
of the Prace, the Clerk ofa Court cf Re-
cord shall use substantially the following
form of certliicsie.
STATE 90 NORTH CAKoiINA,
- G0unty.
The foregoing Tor unnexedl certificate
of A. Il. or Justice 81 il,s Peace of -
County is sdjudged loh be correct. Let The
deed lnr olhrr inslrun,ent) with ths cerii-
iicales be registered. #
signature of Clerk Of the Court.
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sEcrIuss For the probate or acknow-
.edgment of q cliaitel mortgage, the lee -
a Jusilre Of the Peace shall be ten cents
aud for other instrument twenty CENTS
aud tie Zee or any clerk of curt OF re-
coni Cor passing upon Tive certificate y =
H.. ~. IA
Justice of the Peace asin this act provided
shall Le len r~sls Tor ctatiel n,oriFsgs
aud twenty crnls fof other instrument.
sscTioS S. That MI laws or parts ~
laws incoi,sisiru. Lsrssith be and Ills
same are hereby rspealed'
spcTIns6. Ti,at this act thall TAKE
sii.c, fom aud afirr its ratification.
Israd three times aud ratified 10 Ge'lers
Assembly this Ord day ~ March. 1877.
" THoMAsJ. JARVIS,
President uf tile senate
cIIAs. PHicE,
speaker of House of Representatives.