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ARTICLE 13.

BILLS OF EXCHANGE AND PROMISSORY NOTES.

	9. Legal holidays. 10. Monday to be when they fall on Sunday. 11. Repealed.	NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS ACT. CHAPTER IX. — Discharge of Negotiable Instruments. 139. When person secondarily liable on, discharged.

As to checks drawn by and payable to fiduciary, see art. S7A, sees. 5 and 6.
For bank collection code, see art 11. sec. 83, et seq.

6.

Insufficiency of notary's certificate may be supplied by other testimony. See
notes to sec. 7. Wolf v. Union Trust Co., 150 Md. 388.

7.

When protest is prima facie evidence that notices of non-payment were sent
endorsers; evidence to supply deficiency. Certificate of protest sufficient. Wolf
v. Union Trust Co., 150 Md. 388.

Legal Holidays.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 9. 1912, sec. 9. 1904, sec. 9. 1888, sec. 9. 1882, ch. 23.

1890, ch. 238. 1904, ch. 1. 1908, ch. 181. 1910, ch. 27 (p. 32).

1916, ch. 633. 1927, ch. 239.

9. The following days in each and every year, namely, the first day of
January, commonly called "New Year's Day"; the 22nd day of February,
known as "Washington's Birthday"; the 25th day of March, known as
"Maryland Day"; "Good Friday"; the first Monday in September, com-
monly called "Labor Day"; the 30th day of May, commonly called "Deco-
ration Day"; the 4th of July, called "Independence Day"; the 12th day
of September, known as "Defenders' Day"; the 12th day of October,
known as "Columbus Day"; the 11th day of November, known as
"Armistice Day"; the 25th day of December, called "Christmas
Day"; and all days of general and congressional elections throughout the
State, and all special days that may be appointed or recommended by the
Governor of this State, or the President of the United States, as days of
thanksgiving or fasting and prayer, or other religious observance, or for
the general cessation of business, shall be regarded as legal holidays, and
shall be duly observed as such, and shall for all purposes whatsoever as
regards the presenting for payment or acceptance and of the protesting and
giving notice of dishonor of bills of exchange, bank checks, drafts and
promissory notes, to be treated and considered as the first day of the week,
commonly called Sunday, and all such bills, drafts, checks and notes pre-