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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted

so as to read as follows :

SEC. 21. Notaries Public shall be entitled to de-

mand and receive the following fees, to wit : For

protesting any note, draft, bill of exchange or check,

for non-acceptance or non-payment, two dollars; for

Fees of nota-
ries public.

drawing all proceedings not exceeding two sides,
fifty cents ; for drawing all proceedings exceeding

two sides, per side, twenty-five cents ; for register-

ing or copying proceedings, for every side, ten cents;

for presenting a bill of exchange for acceptance, if

accepted and not afterwards protested for non-pay-

ment, one dollar ; for noting a bill for non-acceptance,
if not protested for non-acceptance or non-payment,

one dollar ; for noting a marine protest, one dollar ;

for affixing notaries' seal, fifty cents ; for every search

where no copy is made, twenty-five cents ; for ad-

ministering an oath or taking an acknowledgment,

twelve-and-a-half cents ; for all other acts and ser-

vice, in proportion to the aforesaid fees, to be paid

at the time of doing the same. For going any dis-

tance more than three miles from his residence, per

mile, twenty cents ; for every notice of protest mailed

or delivered, five cents ; for presentation and demand

for payment of a promissory note, a bill of exchange,
if payment of same be made to the notary, one dollar.

In force.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1878.

CHAPTER 274.

AN ACT to approve, confirm and ratify the award

made by the Honorable Jeremiah S. Black, James

B: Beck and Charles A. Jenkins, arbitrators ap-

pointed to ascertain and fix the boundary between

the States of Virginia and Maryland.

Whereas by an act of the General Assembly of

Preamble.

Maryland, passed at January session, eighteen nun-