The proof or acknowledgment of an instrument may be made at any place within this state before a justice or the clerk of the Supreme Court or a notary public.

Source: CivC 1877, § 655; CL 1887, § 3277; RCivC 1903, § 970; SL 1907, ch 3; RC 1919, § 575; SDC 1939, § 51.1604.