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So much money as will purchase a good bill of exchange at the current

exchange of such bills — 1785, ch. 38, sec. 2,

198

Eight per cent, damages on the value of the principal sum in the said

bill— 1785, ch. 38, sec. 2, . . . . . .

198

Costs of the protest— 1785, ch. 38, sec. 2, .

198

Legal interest thereon from the time of the protest till the principal,

damages and interest, are paid — 1785, ch. 38, sec. 3,

198

On payment by the endorser, he may recover, as above, on foreign bills

—1786, ch. 38, sec. 3, ........

198

Bills drawn before this act, and already or hereafter protested, subject

to the regulations in the act of 1715, ch. 7, which is hereby re-

pealed— 1785, ch. 38, sec. 3, . . . .

198

Where an endorser of a bill of exchange that shall be protested, and

unpaid by the principal debtor, shall discharge or tender the sum

due thereon, the endorser shall assign to him such protested bill,

and the assignee shall then have action in his own name against the

principal debtor — 1763, ch. 23, sec. 7, .

107

Proof required on a bill of exchange produced against the estate of a

deceased person — 1798, ch. 101, sub ch. 9, sec. 4,

396

No judgment hereafter to be rendered in any suit on any bill of ex-

change, promissory note, or other negotiable instrument, shall be

reversed or set aside because the endorsement shall be in blank, &,c.

but such judgment shall be good and valid — 1825, ch. 35,

824

Protest, duly made by a notary public, of a bill of exchange, foreign or

inland, for non-payment or acceptance, to be prima facie evidence of

such non-payment or acceptance — 1837, ch. 253, sec. 1,

1257

When the protest shall state the notice has been sent or delivered, of

such non-payment or acceptance, such protest to be prima facie

evidence, &.c.— 1837, ch. 253, sec. 2, .

1257

Bill obligatory, of exchange or credit, punishment for robbery, larceny

or forgery thereof — See Crimes and Punishments.

BILL OF SALE.

See CONVEYANCE.

BILL.

Penal — See JOINT OBLIGATION.

Obligatory — See JOINT OBLIGATION.

BILLIARD TABLES.

Persons keeping them to pay $100 for a license, to be granted by the

clerk of the county — 1824, ch. 64, sec. 1, .

805

Such license to be renewed annually on the first Monday in April —

1824, ch. 64, sec. 2, .........

805

Penalty for such neglect or refusal, $500—1824, ch. 64, sec. 3, .

806

Amount received for such licenses to be paid by the clerks of the

counties to the treasurers, with a list of the persons obtaining

licenses — 1824, ch. 64, sec. 4, 5, ......

806