I worked very hard to be able to get this one:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3ESJ7FyiWn5SXczb0dIaFpHV0E/view?usp=sharing
(If anyone knows how to embed the pic directly in the post let me know; I'd rather do that.)
FYI: They are the only notaries to be appointed for life. The Louisiana notary public is a civil law notary with broad powers, as authorized by law, usually reserved for the American style combination "barrister/solicitor" lawyers and other legally authorized practitioners in other states. A commissioned notary in Louisiana is a civil law notary that can perform/prepare many civil law notarial acts usually associated with attorneys and other legally authorized practitioners in other states, except represent another person or entity before a court of law for a fee (unless they are also admitted to the bar). Notaries are not allowed to give "legal" advice, but they are allowed to give "notarial" advice - i.e., explain or recommend what documents are needed or required to perform a certain act - and do all things necessary or incidental to the performance of their civil law notarial duties. They can prepare any document, to include inventories, appraisements [appraisals], partitions [division of property, both real and community], wills, protests, matrimonial contracts [pre-nups], conveyances [personal and real property], and, generally, all contracts and instruments in writing [including, but not limited to, limited emancipation of a minor, adult adoptions, and small successions] and, if ordered or requested to by a judge, prepare certain notarial legal documents, in accordance with law, to be returned and filed with that court of law.
[parentheticals mine]
