1556 NOTARIES PUBLIC. [ART. 68

1888, art. 68, sec. 1. 1860, art. 67, sec. 1. 1801, ch. 86, sec. 2. 1872, ch. 191.
1880, ch. 21. 1886, ch. 14. 1902, ch. 321 1904, chs. 15, 227.

1. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of the
senate, shall appoint and commission a competent number of
persons of known good character, integrity and abilities, citi-
zens 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 designate; this section as to the number of notaries
public not to apply to Baltimore city as to which special local
law exists.

Ibid. sec. 2. 1860, art. 67, 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 24
of article 36 of the 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 gov-
ernor; and in case of an appointment, on application, during
the recess of the legislature, the governor shall submit said
appointment to the senate for confirmation or rejection, as in
case of appointments to £11 vacancies during the recess of the
legislature.

Ibid, sec 3. 1860, art. 67, sec. 3. 1801, ch. 86, sec. 3. 1832, ch. 286.

3. Each notary public shall have the power of administering
oaths according to law in all matter 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 v Riley, 25 Md. 402.

Ibid. sec. 4. 1860, art. 67, sec. 4. 1801, ch. 86, sec. 4.

4. A notary shall have power to receive the proof or
acknowledgment of all instruments of writing relating to com-
merce or navigation and such other writings as have been
usually proved and acknowledged before notaries public; and
to make protests and declarations and testify the truth thereof