1022 NOTARIES PUBLIC—APPOINTMENT—BOND. [ART. 68.

ARTICLE LXVIII.

NOTARIES PUBLIC.

1. Appointment, qualifications, num- ber 2. Bond. 3. Power to administer oaths. 4. To take acknowledgment of instru- ments and make protests. 5. To keep a register; give copies, fee.

6. Deposit of papers in case of vaca- tion of office. 7 Seal. 8 Acts in counties other than that of their appointment. 9. Stamp on protests.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 67, sec. 1. 1801, v. 86, sec 2. 1872, ch. 191. 1880,
ch. 21. 1886, ch. 14

1. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of the
senate, shall appoint and commission a competent number of per-
sons of known good character, integrity and abilities, citizens of
the United States, and who have resided in this State two years
previous to their appointment as notaries public for the State of
Maryland, to reside in such place or places within this State as
the governor shall in and by their respective commissions desig-
nate ; but there shall not be at any time more than twelve notaries
appointed and commissioned to reside within the city of Balti-
more, one of whom shall be conversant with the German language.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 67, sec. 2. 1845, ch. 133.

2. Each notary public shall, within thirty days from the time

of his appointment, give the bond prescribed in section 24 of
article 35.

Ibid. sec. 3. 1801, ch. 86. sec. 3. 1882, ch. 286.

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.

Conolly B. Riley, 25 Md. 402.