A notary public is authorized to solemnize the rites of matrimony and to take the acknowledgments of deeds and other instruments of writing for record, as fully as other officers of this state. For solemnizing the rites of matrimony, the fee of a notary public may not exceed those provided by law to the clerks of the circuit court for like services.

History.--s. 2, ch. 1127, 1860; RS 220; GS 305; RGS 416; CGL 482; s. 20, ch. 73-334; s. 8, ch. 81-260; s. 3, ch. 91-291; s. 3, ch. 93-62.