1338 . LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 790]

BILLS OF EXCHANGE AND PROMISSORY NOTES.
1898, ch. 366.

50. It shall be lawful for banks and bankers in Montgom-
ery county to close their doors for business at twelve o'clock
noon on each and every Saturday in the year, and every Sat-
urday in the year after twelve o'clock noon shall be a legal
half-holiday so far as regards the presenting for payment or
acceptance and the protesting and giving notice of the dis-
honor of bills of exchange, bank checks, drafts, promissory
notes and other negotiable paper, and for these purposes shall
be treated and considered as the first day of the week, com-
monly called Sunday, and all such bills, checks, drafts and
notes presentable for acceptance or payment on Saturday shall
be deemed to be presentable for acceptance or payment on the
secular or business day next succeeding; provided, however,
that all bills of exchange, drafts and promissory notes made
after the passage of this act, except those payable at sight or
on demand, which shall be otherwise payable on any half-holi-
day Saturday shall be deemed to be and shall be payable on
the next succeeding secular or business day; and provided fur-
ther, that for the purpose of protesting or otherwise holding
any party to any bill of exchange, bank check, draft or prom-
issory note, and which shall not have been paid before twelve
o'clock at noon on any half-holiday Saturday, a demand of
acceptance or payment thereof may be made, and notice of
protest or dishonor thereof may be given, on the next sue
ceeding secular or business day; provided further, that when
any person shall receive for collection in said county any bill
of exchange, bank check or promissory note due and present-
able for acceptance or payment on any half-holiday Saturday,
such person shall not be deemed guilty of any neglect or omis-
sion of duty nor incur any liability in not presenting for pay-
ment or acceptance or collecting such bill of exchange, bank
check, draft or promissory note on that day; and provided
further, that in construing this section, every half-holiday Sat-
urday shall, until twelve o'clock noon, be deemed a secular
business day. Nothing in this section shall affect the provi-
sions of sections 9 and 10 of Article 3 of the Code of Public
General Laws, applicable to any Saturday, whenever the same,
under the provisions of said section, shall be a legal holiday.

BIRDS AND GAME.
P. L. L. (1888), art 16, sec. 53. 1906, ch. 756.

51. It shall not be lawful to kill in Montgomery county
any robin, blue bird, thrush, martin,.mocking bird, barn swal-
low, mason swallow, lark, oriole, red bird, cat bird, chipping
or summer sparrow, wren, pewit, goldfinch, sapsucker, hang-
ing bird, woodpecker, fly catcher or tanager; but nothing con-
tained in this section shall be so construed as to prevent the
killing or capture of crows, hawks, owls or other kinds of
birds of prey.