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From and after the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and one, no person in England shall be created to act as a publick notary, ..., unless such person shall have been duly sworn, admitted, and inrolled,  . . . in the court wherein notaries have been accustomarily sworn, admitted, and inrolled.
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Provided nevertheless, and it is hereby enacted, that nothing in this Act contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to any ... person or persons necessarily created a notary publick for the purpose of holding or exercising any office or appointment, or occasionally performing any publick duty or service under government, and not as general practitioner or practitioners; anything herein-before contained to the contrary notwithstanding: . . . .
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