ART. 67.] NOTARIES PUBLIC. 469

four notaries appointed and commissioned to reside within the
city of Baltimore.

2. Each notary public shall, within thirty days from the time
of his appointment, give the bond prescribed in section twenty-
three of article thirty-eight.

3. Each notary public shall have the power of administering
oaths according to law, in all matters belonging or incident to
the exercise of his notarial office, and in all matters and cases of
a civil nature in which a justice of the peace may administer an
oath, and with the same effect) and a certificate under the
notarial seal of a notary public shall be sufficient evidence of
his having administered such oath in his character as notary
public.

4. A notary shall have power to receive the proof or acknow-
ledgment of all instruments of writing relating to commerce or
navigation, and such other writings as have been usually
proved and acknowledged before notaries public; and to make
protests and declarations, and testify the truth thereof under his
seal of office concerning all matters done by him in virtue of his
office.

5. Each notary shall keep a fair register of all protests and
other official acts by him. done in virtue of his office, and shall,
when required, give a certified copy of any record in his office
to any person applying for the same, the said person paying the
usual fees therefor.

6. In case of the death, resignation, disqualification or removal
from office of a notary, his register and other public papers shall
be deposited in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court for
the county in which he may reside, or if he reside in the city of
Baltimore, in the office of the clerk of the Superior Court of said
city, within sixty days after such death, disqualification, resigna-
tion or removal.

7. Every notary shall provide a public notarial seal with which
he shall authenticate his acts, instruments and attestations, on
which seal shall be engraved such device as he may think proper,
and for legend shall have the name, surname and office of the
notary, and the place of his residence.