Forms 8283 and 8282 are required for documenting receipt of certain noncash contributions and subsequent dispositions of donated assets. An acknowledgment is one of the most common types of notarial acts, but it often confuses Notaries.Here are 5 steps to performing an acknowledgment. You may need to fill out and attach a separate Notary certificate if there is no room on the document for your Notary signature. For documents created electronically on a file system, signatures may be obtained electronically if a mechanism is available to the signer. I'm going to take a minute here and we're going to cover how to properly do an all-purpose acknowledgement for the state of California. This instrument was acknowledged before me on ______(date) by________________(name(s) of person(s).