8-21-1201 - Notaries public.
8-21-1201. Notaries public.
Notaries public are entitled to demand and receive the following fees and compensation for services:
(1) For recording, in a well-bound book, to be kept by the notary for that purpose, each attestation, protestation, and other instrument of publication . . . . . $ 1.00
(2) For the protestation of negotiable instruments, for each instrument protested, without regard to the number of parties on each instrument . . . . . 1.50
(3) For every acknowledgment or probate of deed, or other instrument of writing, with seal attached, the same as county clerks.
(4) For acknowledgment of notes for advances on tobacco . . . . . .25
(5) For each deposition taken . . . . . 1.00
(6) For any other service legally performed by the notary, the same fees allowed other officers for like services.
[Code 1858, § 4575; Acts 1883, ch. 151, § 2; 1895, ch. 203, § 2; 1905, ch. 6, § 4; Shan., § 6414; mod. Code 1932, § 10715; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 22, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-2142.]