MISSOURI.- Within the state ; before a court hav ing a seal, or before a judge, justice, or clerk there of, a notary public, or some justice of the peace for the county where the land lies. Without the state, and within the United States, by any notary publio, or by aoy court of the United' States, or of any state or territory, having a seal, or the clerk of such court, or before a Missouri commissioner. Without the United States, by any court of any state, king. dom, or empire, having a seal; or before the mayor or chief officer of any city or town having an official seal; or by any minister or consul of the United States, or notary public, having a seal.
The certificate must be endorsed on the instru ment. If granted by a court, it must be under its seal; if by a clerk, then under his hand and the , seal of his court; if by an officer having an official seal, then under his hand and seal; if by one who has no seal, then under his hand.
No acknowledgment must be taken unless the person offering to make it is personally known to at least one judge of the court, or to the officer taking it, to be the person whose name is sub scribed, or unless he is proved to be such by at least two credible witnesses. The certificate must
state this fact, as well as the fact of acknowledg ment; and, if the identity was proved by witnesses, their names and residence must be stated. 1 Rev. Stat. (1855) 358, 00 16-21.
The method of proof by subscribing witnesses or handwriting is the same as that above stated as the law of Kaosas, except that the certificate must state also the residence of the witnesses. Id. 22-30.
A married woman's relinquishment of dower may be acknowledged in the same way; but no such acknowledgment can be taken unless, in addition to the requirements in the case of other grantors, she is made acquainted with the contents of the conveyaoce, and acknowledges, on a separate ex amination apart from her husband, that she ex ecuted the same (and, if it is a Plinguishment of her dower, that she relinquishes her dower in the real estate therein mentioned) freely, and witbont compulsion or undue influence of her husband. The certificate must set forth these facts, as well as those required to be stated in a certificate of ac knowledgment by any other party. Id. 31-39.