2222 ARTICLE 68.

ARTICLE 68.

NOTARIES PUBLIC.

1. Appointment; qualifications; fees. 2. Bond of notary. Number of notaries in each county. 3. Power to administer oaths. 4. To take acknowledgment of instru- ments and make protests. 5. To keep a register; give copies; fees. 6. Deposit of papers in case of vacation of office.

7. Seal. 8. Acts in counties other than that of their appointment. 9. Stamp on protests. 10. Women notaries public. 11. Official acts by women, valid. 12. When notary may not take acknowl- edgments and protests.

An. Code, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, sec. 1. 1801, ch. 86, sec. 2. 1872, ch. 191. 1880, ch. 21.
1886, ch. 14. 1902, ch. 321. 1904, chs. 15, 227. 1918, ch. 474.

1. The Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Senate,
shall appoint and commission in his discretion and judgment any num-
ber of persons male or female, of known good character, and integrity and
abilities, citizens of the United States, and who have resided in this State
two (2) years previous to their appointment as notaries public for the
State of Maryland, to reside in such place or places as the Governor shall
in and by their respective commissions designate.

No distinction shall be made between male or female applicants, who
shall take the oath of office before the Clerk of the Circuit Court for each
of the counties in the State, and the Clerk of the Superior Court in Balti-
more City, respectively, and shall receive a commission signed by the
Governor and Secretary of State under the Great Seal of the State. They
shall pay the sum of five ($5) dollars for each commission so issued, to
the Treasury of the State of Maryland, and the further sum of fifty (50c.)
to the Clerk for the registration of the name and address of each of the
said Notaries Public.1

As to the appointment of notaries, see art. 4, sec. 45, Md. Constitution.
As to fees, see art. 36, secs. 24-28.

An. Code, sec. 2. 1904, sec. 2. 1888, sec. 2. 1845, ch. 133. 1894, ch. 412.

2. Each notary public shall, within thirty days from the time of his
appointment, give the bond prescribed in section 26 of article 36 of the
annotated code of public general laws; and each county of the State shall be
entitled, on application, to at least two notaries public, to be appointed as
aforesaid by the governor; and in case of an appointment, on application,
during the recess of the legislature, the governor shall submit said appoint-

1 Sec. 2 of act of 1918, ch. 474, repeals all acts or parts of acts, either general or local,
in conflict or inconsistent with said act of 1918.