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in dispute fairly to trial at the next term thereafter without any
imparlance or delay.

9. The word county in this article shall include the city of ;
Baltimore.

ARTICLE XIV.
Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes.

SEC. 1. The owner or holder of every bill of exchange drawn
in this State on ,any person, corporation or company in any
foreign country, and regularly protested, shall have a right to
recover so much current money as will purchase a good bill of
exchange of the same time of payment, and upon the same
place, at the current exchange of such bill, and also fifteen per
cent, damages upon the value of the principal sum mentioned
in such bill, and costs of protest, together with legal interest
upon the value of the principal sum therein mentioned from the
time of protest, until the principal and damages are paid and
satisfied.

2. If any endorser of such bill shall pay to the owner or holder
of such bill the value of the principal, and the damages and in-
terest aforesaid, he shall have the right to recover the sum paid
with legal interest upon the same, from the drawer or any other
person, corporation or company liable to such endorser, upon
such bill of exchange.

3. All inland bills of exchange or orders drawn by a citizen,
company or corporation of any other State, District or Ter-
ritory, or any person therein residing, or being, on any person,
company or corporation of this State, or any person therein
residing or being, shall be liable to official protest by a Notary
Public, or by the clerk of the Circuit Court for the county, who
is hereby vested with power to make such protest under his seal
of office, and the clerk shall receive therefor, from the person re-
quiring the same, the sum of one dollar.

4. The owner or holder of any bill of exchange drawn in this
State upon any person, company or corporation in any other
State, District or Territory of the United States, and protested