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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">See RCW 42.45.070 and RCW 64.08.070. Also, the short forms found in RCW 42.45.140(1) and (2) don’t seem to rely on any signature in any form.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com <wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Josh Grant<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 9, 2021 4:16 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> wsbar <wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com>; wsbar trust <wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [WSBARP] executing by Mark - Notary<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">I tried to find what the RCW re: what a notary must do when a person signs by Mark. I have an old file with notary rules all in RCW 42.44. But in the last 100 years those provisions must have
moved? One form I have used has the following language: </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red">On this day personally appeared____ who executed the instrument by her mark, in my presence, said instrument having been read to her, she being a person unable to read or write and she acknowledged to me that she
executed the same as her free and voluntary act and deed for the uses and purposes herein set forth.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Is that required language when a mark is used? This will be on a Power of Attorney and the signatory can only make a mark and can’t verbalize much of anything regarding acknowledging what she
is signing.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#004080">Joshua F. Grant</span></strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#004080"><br>
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</span><span style="color:#004080">P. O. Box 619<br>
Wilbur, WA 99185<br>
509 647 5578</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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