480 COMMISSIONERS TO TAKE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. [ART. 18

Clerks of Circuit Courts and Superior Court of Baltimore

City.

1888, art. 17, sec 63. 1860, art. 16, sec. 48. 1843, ch. 284, sec. 1.

67. All civil commissions issued by the governor and sent
by the secretary of State to the clerks of the respective circuit
courts, and the clerk of the superior court of Baltimore city,
shall be by them respectively delivered immediately to the
persons to whom such commissions are directed, and who may
apply for the same.

Ibid sec 64 1860, art. 18, sec 49. 1852, ch. 172, sec 4.

68. The said clerks shall report to the secretary of State, at
least once a month, the names and offices of all officers who
have taken and subscribed the oaths required by the constitu-
tion and laws to be taken before them.

Ibid. sec. 65. 1860, art 18, sec. 50. 1852, ch. 172, sec 4. 1866, ch. 154, sec 93.
691 Each clerk of the circuit court for the counties, and the
superior court of Baltimore city, shall, when required to do so
by any person, give a certificate, under the seal of his office,
of the qualification of any public officer who has taken and
subscribed the oaths of office before him, or whose .oath of
office is recorded in his office.

Ibid. sec. 66. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 139

70. The clerks of the several circuit courts and of the
superior court of Baltimore city shall not administer the oath
of office to any officer until he pays the tax on his commission
prescribed by law; and the said clerk shall quarterly, on the
first Monday of March, June, September and December, pay
to the treasurer all sums of money they shall have received for
taxes on commissions.

ARTICLE XVIII.

COMMISSIONERS TO TAKE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

1. Biennial appointment of. 2. Tenure. 3. Oath. 4 Authority to administer oath. 5. Acknowledgments before.

6. Certificate of qualification. 7 Commissioners in foreign coun- tries. 8. Oath of such commissioners. 9. Payment to State f or commission.