One nice side effect of practicing law is finding obscure and archaic words nestled in the proverbial fine print. While browsing through the Notaries Public Act to make sure I'm doing it right, I ran across this clause:

A notary public may, during pleasure,
...
(e) demand, receive, and have all the rights, profits and emoluments rightfully appertaining and belonging to the calling of notary public.

Emolument. Apparently it comes from the Latin emolere, which is to produce by grinding, and it means compensation for employment.

Employment is a grind, but notarizing documents is one of the least grinding ways I've had of earning my emoluments.