1724 ARTICLE 7.
tiable papers, and for these purposes shall be treated and considered as
the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday; and all such bills,
checks, drafts and notes presentable for payment or acceptance on Satur-
day shall be deemed to be presentable! for payment or acceptance 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 other-
wise payable on any half-holiday Saturday, shall be deemed to be and
shall be payable on the next secular or business day; and provided further,
that for the purpose of protecting and otherwise holding liable any party
to any bill of exchange, bank check, draft or promissory 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 succeeding
secular or business day; and provided further, that when any person
shall receive for collection in said county any bills of exchange, bank
check, draft or promissory note due and presentable for acceptance or
payment on any half-holiday Saturday, such person shall not be deemed
guilty of any neglect or omission of duty nor incur any liability in not
presenting for payment or acceptance or collection such bill of exchange,
bank check, draft or promissory note on that day; and provided further,
that in construing this section every half-holiday Saturday shall, until
twelve o'clock noon, be deemed a secular business day. Nothing in Article
7 of the Code of Public General Laws, applicable to any Saturday when-
ever the same, under the provisions of said section, shall be a legal holiday.
BIRDS AND GAME.
(All local laws relating to birds and game were repealed by ch. 568, 1927.
See 1929 Supplement to Annotated Code, Art. 99.)
CIRCUIT COURT.
P. L. L., 1888, Art. 7, sec. 16. 1865, ch. 2. 1890, ch. 136, sec. 16.
16. The Circuit Court for Carroll County shall hold four terms of
court for common law proceedings, commencing respectively on the second
Monday in February, on the second Monday of May, on the second Mon-
day of August and on the second Monday of November in each and every
year, to which terms in May and November both grand and petit jurors
shall be summoned, and to which February term petit jurors only shall
be summoned, and to which August term no jurors shall be summoned;
the trial term of said court for the cases depending therein upon issues
of facts, to be tried by a jury, shall be the term to which jurors shall be
summoned next succeeding the terms to which original process may be
returnable to the term next succeeding the date of the issue thereof, and
the drawing of jurors for the jury terms aforesaid shall be in all respects
as now prescribed by law, except that for the February term aforesaid,
and not less than fifteen days before the same, there shall be drawn from
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