When the proof or acknowledgment of any instrument is had before any official of some other state, territory or country and such official has no official seal, then the certificate of such official shall be accompanied by the certificate of a clerk of a court of record of the state, territory or country in which the official taking the proof or acknowledgment resides, of the official position and signature of such official; such certificate of the clerk shall be under his hand and official seal and shall be in substance as follows:
____________County.
I, A.B. (here give name and official title of the clerk of a court of record as provided herein), do hereby certify that C.D. (here give name of the official taking the proof, etc.) was at the time of signing the foregoing (or annexed) certificate (here give the official title of the officer taking proof, etc.) in and for the county of ______ and state of ________ (or other political division of the state, territory or country, as the case may be), and that his signature thereto is in his own proper handwriting.
In witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand and official seal, this ______________day of______________, A.D.______
(Official seal.)
__________________________________________
(Signature of Clerk.)
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 47-45