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to close their doors for business at twelve o'clock noon, on each and every
Saturday in the year, and every Saturday 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 con-
sidered as the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, and all
such bills, checks, drafts and notes, presentable for acceptance or payment
on Saturdays, shall be deemed to be presentable for acceptance or pay-
ment 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 deemed to be otherwise payable on any half-holiday, Saturday,
shall be deemed to tie and shall be payable on the next succeeding secular
or business day; and, provided further that for the purpose of protesting-
or otherwise holding liable any party to any bill of exchange, bank checks,
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; provided
further, that, when any person shall receive for collection in said City of
Cumberland, any bill of exchange, bank check 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-
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 Saturday shall, until twelve o'clock, noon, be deemed a secular
business day; nothing in this section shall affect the provisions of Sections
9 and 10 of Article 13 of the Code of Public General Laws, applicable
to any Saturday, whenever the same, under the provision of said section,
shall be a legal holiday.

1922, ch. 96, sec. 100.

100. Whenever any bill of exchange, bank check, draft or promissory
note shall be presented for payment in the City of Cumberland on the
secular or business day next succeeding the day on which it would other-
wise have been presentable for payment, interest on same shall be com-
puted down to and including such secular or business day.

FISCAL YEAR.

1922, ch. 96, sec. 101.

101. The fiscal year for the City of Cumberland shall begin on the
first day of April in each and every year. All books required to be kept
by the several officers as hereinbefore provided, shall be procured by the
Mayor and City Council, and the same, together with all papers pertain-