New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-09-26
GRIMES OF NOTARIEs.

CARELEsSNEss OF THE LEGISLATURE IN THLIR AP.
PoNTMENT-so MANY NOTARrEs NOT NEEDED.
To the Editor or The TrtbUHe.
SIR | have held the office of a Notary Pub
lie over 10 years in succession. md only very few
notaries who correctly draw any but the painest
and shortest kind OF certificate to an instrument u Do
recorded Since first appointed have had i've
different married men Zone time and privately, Of
cOurse) ca on me and wish to certify that person
ally saw their wives and took their cAnowlcdsmens
separate and apart from her husband, which did not
One Of those men is LAWYER and resided then In Con
Deetlcut l. OF refused in every such instance.
Some time afterward this living IN Connecticut cali
ed asked him who doing his notary business now
adays He replied Somebody who is not as partlcular
as you are" Three OF those five men have Informed me
thai there plenty OF notares who Will aud who often
do thus violate the statute Not one OF those I've
has ever called on me for any N pre- notary business
Ihaye called the attention OF several lawyers ami no
taries TO these express provisions Of the statute;
but they knew nothing about it-hai never
seen il. The question about the personal
Identification OF the grantor alluded to IN The letter OF
Mr. Edward w. Critenden in ms letter on tue 2 pags
OF THE TRBUSE Of the i2.h was settled ~ tne HeIcIi
Term Of the supreme Court IN this Judicial District some
years ago. Bat find no notary or lawyer VINO KNOWS
anything unless he Is one TO whom nave pointed
il out Mr. Crttenden truly says, II officers were plr
ticular frauds would be few. And the senate would
be as particular Us II sn9nld De- DO l,'us SoutS SAs,
because no roSues would be appointed one Notary tes
titled before a referee that he mad known man nine
afifavits and taken MS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 20 Pap.r;
THIS mans real name was II IL falsey pers)hatet
Caleb Brush, r., and executed satisfaction piece ora
mortgage for $500 house aud lot IN West Forty
dfth-st. He wished to get ana dld get S300 on Tue
property, and exhibited tbs satisfaction piece
showing that the mortgage for sl5oO was saushsdu
record Bur he did not get and deliver nD me OH pong
and mortgage to the new mortgage. IhOe were held
by Mr. Brush, because they had not really been PAID
And thus all the facts came ont on the trlaL
There should not be more than 80 notares ana no com
mlssioners of deeds in the city linen tnn HoulS ns
Office could afford 10 remain In his ONCE anu ihe
little business but he cannot now WINE Gene was Ia
the Senate lie managed to get through bill nearly
every year increasing the number OF holders OF tns
petty office; increase which ne wei Knew was nos
needed The number with the COnmlssiOner,) IN
this city do exactly know but thbk 10 Is aDOu.
1000 Many of them laymen, clerks In drug stores
or hotels real estate brokers' eX-c0nstaDes, eA mar
shals, eXdeputy sheriRs men following otheF pursuits,
men having good law books AT mana; walters ia
notes anu I IA eDuio ne Dd oces If no sponbil
thus very important and 1lgay TespSnSole once a
Neg York, Sept. IL 1874.
FORGED DEEDS CERTIFIED BY NOTARIEs.
To lhe EdttoF Of The Tribune
Sir: Few or no fOTgeries of deeds or mort.
cages could be perpetrated II the notary or commits
soncr by whom the acknowledgements taken did hs
duty and honestly complied with the law. John Smith,
who executes deed mortgage or any other nstru-
affecting real estate, Is required TO Acknowledge
the Of the instrument before some notary or
commissioner whom IS known. and that officer 10
John Smith, to him known TO be the same person he
scrbed In and who executed said instrument Cat the
date OF the cercate appeared before him aud aeknow
edged that he executed the same.
The trouble is that the notaries and commissioner
either Intentionally carelessly, certify what Is nos
true-that they know the person be the same John
Smith who" Sc-whereas they do not know Il at ALL and.
as matter Of fact IL may be Brown any other man,
1t saying much that utter stranger may go
before half OF the nOtares the city and by his or
any other name make acknowledgment To an instru-
ment pay his twenty-five cents and away with that
officers certificate he Is known 10 the officer To Do
the person described the instrument. Aud yet the
whole statement may be an utter asehood 10 It's essen
tia point.
believe there is no class OF officials upon whom such
important duties deYOye who careless or reckless
in the performance Of them III this respect IL is ls
persons be the parties described when they know nc
such thing and have reasonable PROOF thereof that
makes dangerous the dealing with real estate unless
with persons known 10 the dealer himself.
There record ia this city at LDre l3i or Mort
CAGES page So mortgage which the MORTGAGE In Isl
offered sale The two deeds TO the person who exc
cuted the mortgage forged. In those cases th3
notary certified that he knew the persons VINO executed
them TO be the persons described IN them. whereas,
Of course the persons who came before him and ac-
knowledged the execution or the Instruments Were
quite other and different persons In the case referred
10 necessary for four persons two husbands Win
their wvel TO have been personated believe there Is 10
doubt that the above deeds forged aud put on
record enable the mortgage 10 be executed ana SOLD
The MORTGAGE named was IN prison Tor TINE Tor nav
ing raised money on the mortgage.
II the law made 10 penal oense for officials taxing
acknowledge to issue false certificates, there
would say the least be greater caution exercised 0y
notaries and commissioners. J. s..
Neu- York, Sept. H. ls1t