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representatives or other assignees of such party although at the
time aforesaid said party may be dead, or may have assigned his
interest in such money, property or dealings; Provided, that the
person paying, transferring or having such dealings with the
person acting under such power of attorney or agency had not
at the time notice of the death of the party giving such power
or creating such agency, or of the fact of the assignment afore-
said.

25. A power of attorney to transfer stock standing on the
books of any corporation chartered by this State in the name of
a partnership or firm, signed with the name of such partnership
or firm, and sealed by one of the members thereof, acknowledged
as directed in the next succeeding section, shall be as valid and
effectual as if signed and sealed by all the members of such part-
nership or firm.

26. The member signing and sealing such power of attorney
shall acknowledge the same before a justice of the peace of this
State, or before a notary public, mayor of a corporation, or judge
of a court of record, and shall have such acknowledgment, if made
before a notary public, certified under his notarial seal, or if made
before a mayor of a corporation, certified under the seal of such
corporation, or if made before a judge of a court of record, certi-
fied by the clerk of the court under the seal of the court, or if it
be made before a justice of the peace in any other county than
that in which the transfer of stock is proposed to be made, the
clerk of the Circuit Court of the county or the Superior Court
of the city of Baltimore, where the justice resides, shall cer-
tify under the seal of the said court, that the said justice at
the time of said acknowledgment was duly commissioned and
sworn.

27. A power of attorney to execute a deed shall be executed,
acknowledged and certified as required in the article on Convey-
ancing.