18-4-13. Form of certificate of corporate acknowledgment. The certificate of acknowledgment of an instrument executed by a corporation must be substantially in the following form:
Territory of ____ or State of ____
County of ____ ss
On this ____ day of ____, in the year ____, before me ____, personally appeared ____, known to me (or proved to me on the oath of ____) to be the ____ of the corporation that is described in and that executed the within instrument and acknowledged to me that such corporation executed the same.
Source: CivC 1877, § 666, subdiv 2; CL 1887, § 3288, subdiv 2; RCivC 1903, § 981, subdiv 2; RC 1919, § 587 (2); SL 1921, ch 2; SDC 1939, § 51.1615 (2).