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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 820

Article 68 - Notaries Public

1.

(f) At the time the notice of appointment by the
Governor or the notice of renewal is issued, the Secretary
of State shall forward to [the clerk of the Superior Court
of Baltimore City, if the notary resides therein, or] the
clerk of the circuit court of the county in which the notary
public resides, a commission signed by the Governor and
Secretary of State under the great seal of the State. The
clerk of the court shall deliver the commission to the
notary public upon qualification and payment of the
prescribed fees by the notary public. Each notary public
shall pay to the clerk a fee of one dollar ($1.00) for
qualifying the notary public and registering the name and
address of the notary public; and a fee of ten dollars
($10.00) or such lesser amount as may be prescribed by the
Secretary of State for the commission issued, which shall be
paid by the clerk to the treasury of the State of Maryland.
The Secretary of State may fix such other reasonable fees as
may be required for the processing of applications and the
issuance and renewal of notarial commissions.

Article 69 - Officers

3.

Whenever the Governor shall be apprised that a
commission has been inadvertently issued to anyone, he shall
cause the State's attorney of the county [or of the City of
Baltimore] to sue out of the circuit court for the said
county[, or from the Superior Court of Baltimore City, Court
of Common Pleas or Baltimore City court,] a writ of mandamus
directed to the persons professing to hold the office
mentioned in the commission so improvidently issued to
inquire into the right whereby such office is so held; and
if it shall appear on the trial that at the time of the
election or appointment of such person he had not accounted
with and paid into the treasury of the State any money which
he should have accounted for and paid into the treasury
before such election or appointment, then the court shall
adjudge said election or appointment to have been null and
void from the beginning and the office to be vacant.

7.

No postmaster or his deputies, nor United States
marshal or his deputies shall hold any office under the
government of this State or exercise any of the functions of
any officer, under the penalty of fifty dollars for every
offense; to be recovered by indictment in the circuit court
for the county where the offense may be committed[, or in
the Criminal Court of Baltimore, if committed in said city].