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And from and after the said first day of August one thousand eight hundred and one, no person shall be sworn, admitted, and inrolled as a publick notary, unless such person shall have been bound, by contract in writing or by indenture of apprenticeship, to serve as a clerk or apprentice, for and during the space of not less than seven years, to a publick notary, or a person using the art and mystery of a scrivener (according to the privilege and custom of the city of London, such scrivener being also a publick notary), duly sworn, admitted, and inrolled, and that such person, for and during the said term of seven years, shall have continued in such service; and also unless every such person who shall, from and after the said first day of August, be bound by contract in writing or indenture of apprenticeship to serve as a clerk or apprentice to any publick notary or scrivener (being also a publick notary), shall, within three months next after the date of every such contract or indenture of apprenticeship, cause an affidavit to be made and duly sworn by one of the subscribing witnesses, of the actual execution of every such contract or indenture of apprenticeship by such publick notary or scrivener (being also a publick notary), and the person so to be bound to serve as a clerk or apprentice as aforesaid; and in every such affidavit shall be specified the names of every such publick notary or scrivener (being a publick notary), and of every such person so bound, and their places of abode respectively, together with the day of the date of such contract or indenture of apprenticeship; and every such affidavit shall be sworn and filed within the time aforesaid, in the court where the publick notary, to whom every such person respectively shall be bound as aforesaid, shall have been inrolled as a notary, with the proper officer or officers, or his or their respective deputy or deputies, who shall make or sign a memorandum of the day of filing every such affidavit on the back or at the bottom of such contract or indenture.]
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F1S. 2 repealed (prosp.) by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 76:1), ss. 57(3)(a)(11), 59(1), 124(3), 125(6), Sch. 19 para. 13, Sch. 20
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