FEES OF OFFICERS 1625

An. Code, 1924, sec. 23. 1912, sec. 21. 1904, sec. 21. 1888, sec. 21. 1809, ch. 76, sec. 7.

1834, ch. 270, sec. 2.

22. No justice shall charge, take and receive any fees or compensa-
tion for mileage, or journey fee for the performance of any duty or busi-
ness relating to his office as justice of the peace except what the party
may agree to pay to a justice going from his office to take the acknowledg-
ment of a deed or other instrument of writing.

Notaries Public.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 24. 1912, sec. 22. 1904, sec. 22. 1888, sec. 22. 1801, ch. 80, secs. 9, 10.
1844, ch. 196, sec. 1. 1878, ch. 273.

23. Notaries public shall be entitled to demand and receive the fol-
lowing fees, to wit:

For protesting any note, draft, bill of exchange or check for non-
acceptance or non-payment............................... $2 00

For drawing all proceedings, exceeding two sides............... 50

For drawing all proceedings, exceeding two sides, per side......... 25

For registering or copying proceedings, for every side........... 10

.For presenting a bill of exchange for acceptance, if accepted and

not afterwards protested for non-payment................... 1 00

For noting a bill for non-acceptance, if not protested for non-
acceptance or non-payment.............................. 1 00

For noting a marine protest................................ 1 00

For affixing notarial seal................................... 50

For every search where no copy is made..................... 25

For administering an oath or taking an acknowledgment......... 12 1/2

For all other acts and service, in proportion to the aforesaid fees,

to be paid at the time of doing the same.
For going any distance more than three miles from his residence,

per mile ............................................. 20

For every notice of protest, mailed or delivered................ 5

For presentation and demand of payment of a promissory note, a

bill of exchange, if payment of same be made to the notary...... 1 00

As to "notaries public," see art. 68.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 25. 1912, sec. 23. 1904, sec. 23. 1888, sec. 23. 1844, ch. 196, sec. 1.

1862, ch. 100.

24. Every notary public shall in the first week of January, April,
July and October, in each year, pay to the treasurer of the State the one-
half of all the fees received by him for protest; and on failure to comply
with the requirements of this section, he shall forfeit in each case the sum
of fifty dollars, to be collected and paid for the use of the State.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 26. 1912, sec. 24. 1904, sec. 24. 1888, sec. 24. 1845, ch. 133.

1862, ch. 113.

25. Every notary public, before he shall be commissioned or author-
ized to discharge the duties of his office, shall give bond to the State of
Maryland with security to be appointed by the governor in the penalty of
six thousand dollars, if appointed for the city of Baltimore, and in the
penalty of two thousand dollars if appointed for any county, conditioned
for the payment into the treasury of that portion of the notarial fees re-
ceived by him for the use of the State; and if any person appointed a