People ex rel. Alton v. Register of City & County of New York

A motion is made for a mandamus, to the register, directing him to record a deed, which had been presented to him for that purpose. The objection on the part of the register is to the certificate attached to the acknowledgment, made before a notary public in Wisconsin, upon the ground that the clerk so certifying is not, according to any thing contained in the certificate, one of the officers designated by the act of 1856 (laws of 1856, 84). By that act, the acknowledgment of the deed may be made before persons residing out of the State of Hew York who are authorized by law to take such…