{"id":3988,"date":"2017-04-17T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/?p=3988"},"modified":"2026-01-03T18:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:50:17","slug":"notaries-public-act-1850","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abclegaldocs.com\/blog-Colorado-Notary\/notaries-public-act-1850\/","title":{"rendered":"Notaries Public Act of 1850"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Century<\/a>Notaries Public Act of 1850<\/h1>\n

The Notaries Public Act of 1850 is found in the Statutes at Large, 31st Congress, 1st Session, Chapter LII,
\nAn Act to authorize Notaries Public<\/strong> to take and certify Oaths<\/strong>,\u00a0Affirmations<\/strong>, and Acknowledgments<\/strong> in certain Cases.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBe it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,<\/em><\/p>\n

That in all cases in which, under the laws of the United States, oaths<\/strong>, or affirmations<\/strong>, or acknowledgments<\/strong> may now be taken or made before any justice<\/strong> or justices of the peace<\/strong> of any State or Territory, such oaths, affirmations, or acknowledgments may be hereafter also taken or made by or before any notary public<\/strong> duly appointed in any State or Territory, and,<\/p>\n

when certified under the hand<\/strong> and official seal<\/strong> of such notary<\/strong>, shall have the same force and effect as if taken or made by or before such justice<\/strong> or justices of the peace<\/strong>. And all laws and parts of laws for punishing perjury<\/strong>, or subordination of perjury<\/strong>, committed in any such oaths<\/strong> or affirmation<\/strong>, when taken or made before any such justice of the peace<\/strong>, shall apply to any such offence committed\u00a0in any oaths or affirmations which may be taken under this act before a notary public<\/strong>, or commissioner<\/strong>, as hereinafter named:<\/p>\n

Provided always<\/em> That on any trial<\/strong> for either of these offences, the seal<\/strong> and signature<\/strong> of the notary<\/strong> shall not be deemed sufficient in themselves to establish the official character of such notary<\/strong>, but the same shall be shown by other and proper evidence<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted<\/em>, That all the powers and authority conferred in and by the preceding section of this act upon notaries public<\/strong> be, and the same are hereby, vested in, and may be exercised by, any commissioner<\/strong> appointed, or hereafter to be appointed, by any Circuit Court<\/strong> of the United States, under any act of Congress authorizing the appointment of commissioners to take bail<\/strong>, affidavits<\/strong>, or depositions<\/strong>, in causes pending in the courts<\/strong> of the United States.\u201d
\nApproved, September 16, 1850.<\/p>\n

Zachary Taylor, President until his death July 9, 1850. Millard Fillmore, President after\u00a0July 9, 1850.<\/p>\n

Source: Library of Congress,\u00a0A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 – 1875<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, page 458<\/p>\n

The Notaries Public Act Congress 1850<\/strong><\/span><\/a> does not give notaries judicial power of a justice of the peace. It only refers to oaths, affirmations, or acknowledgments.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Williams v. Ten Eyck, 1886, DC Supreme Court<\/span><\/h2>\n

Note: This case involved an\u00a0acknowledgment of a deed<\/strong> acknowledged and notarized under the notaries public act of 1850 before the law changed in 1871.<\/p>\n

The prior law of April 30, 1838, (5 Statutes, 226), required the seal<\/strong> of the justice of the peace<\/strong> to be supported by a certificate of the clerk<\/strong> under his seal<\/strong>\u00a0because the justice of the peace had no seal to authenticate his own official acts.<\/p>\n

A notary public<\/strong> has a seal, so no supporting document is required for transactions as evidence to verify a notary’s official capacity, but is required in the proviso for a trial for perjury.<\/p>\n

Under the general commercial law<\/strong> of the world, the certificate of a\u00a0notary and his seal prove themselves. He is an officer known to the commercial law<\/strong>, to the admiralty<\/strong>, and to the civil law<\/strong>; and wherever he has executed an instrument appropriate to his functions, his seal is recognized, and judicially taken notice of by the courts, and proves itself.<\/p>\n

The law changed in February 1871, adding a new provision for acknowledgments<\/strong> that required authentication<\/strong> of the notary by the proper officer of the notary’s state.<\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0District of Columbia Supreme Court Case Reports, 1887, Franklin Mackey, page 168<\/p>\n

<\/span>Law Library of Congress<\/span><\/h2>\n

Books on the law formed a major part of the holdings of the Library of Congress<\/strong> from its beginning. In 1832, Congress established the Law Library<\/strong> of Congress as a separate department of the Library. It houses one of the most complete collections of U.S. Congressional documents in their original format.<\/p>\n

In order to make these records more easily accessible to students, scholars, and interested citizens, A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation<\/strong> brings together online the records and acts of Congress from the Continental Congress<\/strong> and Constitutional Convention<\/strong> through the 43rd Congress, including the first three volumes of the Congressional Record<\/strong>, 1873-75.<\/p>\n

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