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No person shall be admitted unless he shall have served as an apprentice for seven years; nor, if bound after July 1, 1821, unless affidavit of certain particulars be made, which shall be filed in the proper court.
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2. No person shall be sworn, admitted, and enrolled as a public notary, unless such person shall have been bound by contract in writing or by indenture of apprenticeship to serve as a clerk or apprentice for and during the space of not less than seven years to a public notary duly sworn, admitted, and enrolled, and for and during the said term of seven years shall have continued in such service; and also unless every such person, who shall be bound by contract in writing or indenture of apprenticeship to serve as a clerk or apprentice to any public notary, shall, within three months next after the date of every such contract or indenture of apprenticeship, cause an affidavit to be made and duly sworn by one of the subscribing witnesses, of the actual execution of every such contract or indenture of apprenticeship by such public notary and by the person so to be bound to serve as a clerk or apprentice as aforesaid; and in every such affidavit shall be specified the names of such public notary, and of such person so bound, and their places of abode respectively, together with the day of the date of such contract or indenture of apprenticeship; and every such affidavit shall be sworn and filed within the time aforesaid in the court where the public notary, to whom every such person respectively shall be bound as aforesaid, shall have been enrolled as a notary, with the proper officer or officers, or his or their respective deputy or deputies; who shall make or sign a memorandum of the day of filing every such affidavit on the back or at the bottom of such contract or indenture.
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