§ 68-a. Fees for oath or acknowledgment. Any officer, authorized to perform the services specified in this section, and to receive fees therefor, is entitled to the following fees:

1. For administering an oath or affirmation, and certifying the same when required, except where another fee is specially prescribed by statute, two dollars.

2. For taking and certifying the acknowledgment or proof of the execution of a written instrument; by one person, two dollars; and by each additional person, two dollars; for swearing each witness thereto, two dollars.