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the use of such mother or other person entitled as aforesaid, and
thereupon such proceedings shall be had as shall bring the matter
in dispute fairly to trial at the next term thereafter without any
imparlance or delay.

ARTICLE XIII.

BILLS OF EXCHANGE AND PROMISSORY NOTES.

1. Damages on protested foreign bill 2. Recovery by endorser thereon. 3. Protest of inland bills. 4. Damages on protested domestic bills. B. Recovery by endorser thereon. 6. Protest prima facie evidence of presentment.

7 Also of notice of dishonor. 8. No reversal because endorsements are in blank. 9. Legal holidays. 10. Monday to be when they fall on. Sunday. 11. Lost negotiable instruments. 12. No grace on sight drafts.

P. G. L, (1860,) art. 14, sec. 1. 1785, ch. 38, sec. 1.

1. The owner or holder of every bill of exchange drawn in
this State on any person, corporation or company in any foreign
country, and regularly protested, shall have a right to recover so
much current money as will purchase a good bill of exchange of
the same time of payment, and upon the same place, at the
current exchange of such bill, and also fifteen per cent, damages
upon the vaiue of the principal sum mentioned in such bill, and
costs of protest, together with legal interest upon the value of the
principal sum therein mentioned from the time of protest, until
the principal and damages are paid and satisfied.

Bryden v. Taylor, 2 H. & J. 396. Bank v. U. S , 2 How. 736. U. 8. v.
Bank, 5 How. 382.

Ibid. sec. 2. 1785, ch 38, sec. 1.

2. If any endorser of such bill shall pay to the owner or
holder of such bill the vaiue of the principal, and the damages
and interest aforesaid, he shall have the right to recover the sum
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