92 ATTORNEYS. [ART. 10.

person paying, transferring or having such deaiings with the per-
son 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 aforesaid.
Eichelberger v. Sifford, 27 Md. 330.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 11, sec. 25. 1838, ch. 49.

26. 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.

Ibid. sec. 26. 1838, ch. 49.

27. 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 rec-
ord, certified 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 for the county or the superior court
of the city of Baltimore, where the justice resides, shall certify
under the seal of the said court, that the said justice, at the time
of said acknowledgment, was duly commissioned and sworn.

Ibid. sec. 27. 1856, ch. 154, sec. 21.

28. A power of attorney to execute a deed shall be executed,
acknowledged and certified as required in section 27 of article
23, title "Conveyancing."

Land Co v. Doll, 35 Md. 89. Posner v. Bayless, 59 Md. 56. Rosenthal v.
Ruffin, 60 Md. 324.