Section 2 Attornies,&c.,may be admitted as notaries for districts beyond those limitsF1

It shall and may be lawful for the master of the court of faculties of his grace the lord archbishop of Canterbury in London from time to time, upon being satisfied as well of the fitness of the person as of the expediency of the appointment, to appoint, admit, and cause to be sworn and inrolled in the court of faculties any person or persons residing at any place distant more than ten miles from the Royal Exchange in the said city of London, who shall have been previously admitted, sworn, and inrolled an attorney or solicitor in any of the courts at theRoyal Courts of Justice, or who shall be a proctor practising in any ecclesiastical court, to be a notary public or notaries public to practise within any district in which it shall have been made to appear to the said master of the court of faculties that there is not (or shall not hereafter be) a sufficient number of such notaries public admitted or to be admitted under the provisions of the said recited Act for the due convenience and accommodation of such district, as the said master of the court of faculties shall think fit, and not elsewhere; any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.