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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 37.

AN ACT to add a section to article fourteen, Code

of Public General Laws, title, " Bills of exchange

and promissory notes."

Public General

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Laws, addition

Maryland, That the following section be added to

to

article fourteen, Code of Public General Laws, title

"Bills of exchange and promissory notes," to be sec-

tion ten of said article.

Notice of pre-

SECTION 10. Whenever Christmas day, New Year's

test

day, the fourth day of July, or the twenty-second

day of February, shall fall on Sunday, bills of ex-

change, promissory notes, bank checks, and all other

papers requiring protest, which may become clue and

payable on the Monday immediately following either
of said days, shall be payable on the Saturday next

proceeding the same, and it shall not be necessary

for the holders of such bills of exchange or promissory

notes, payable as. aforesaid, to give notice of the dis-

honor thereof, until the Tuesday next, succeeding

either of said days.

In Force

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved, February 13th, 1874.

CHAPTER 39.

AN ACT to repeal section eight hundred and

seventy-two, of article four of the Code of Public

Local Laws, title City of Baltimore, relating to the

limits of direct taxation within said city, and to re-

enact the same with amendments.

Repealing and
re-enacting.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That section eight hundred and seventy-

two, of article four of the Code of Public Local