23-1307. County clerks; election commissioners; deputies; oaths; acknowledgments.All county clerks and election commissioners and their deputies shall have authority to administer oaths and affirmations in all cases where oaths and affirmations are required and to take acknowledgments of deeds, mortgages, and all other instruments in writing, attesting to such with the county seal.Source Laws 1883, c. 19, § 1, p. 181; R.S.1913, § 5611; C.S.1922, § 4930; C.S.1929, § 26-1007; R.S.1943, § 23-1307; Laws 2012, LB398, § 1. Annotations Clerk must report fees for such services, though performed as notary public. State ex rel. Frontier County v. Kelly, 30 Neb. 574, 46 N.W. 714 (1890). Clerk or deputy may administer oaths and affirmations. Merriam v. Coffee, 16 Neb. 450, 20 N.W. 389 (1884).
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