114 BILLS OF EXCHANGE—PROMISSORY NOTES. [ART. 13.

paid, with legal interest upon the same, from the drawer or any
other person, corporation or company liable to such endorser,
upon such bill of exchange.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 14, sec. 8. 1785, ch. 38, sec. 2.

3. All inland bills of exchange or orders drawn by a citizen,
company or corporation of any other State, district or territory,
or any person therein residing, or being, on any person, company
or corporation of this State, or any person therein residing or
being, shall be liable to official protest by a notary public, or by
the clerk of the circuit court for the county, who is hereby vested
with power to make such protest under his seal of office, and
the clerk shall receive therefor, from the person requiring the
same, the sum of one dollar.

Ibid. sec. 4 1785, ch. 38, sec. 3.

4. The owner or holder of any bill of exchange drawn in this
State upon any person, company or corporation in any other
State, district or territory of the United States, and protested
according to the laws or customs of the place where such bill
shall be made payable, shall be entitled to recover so much
current money as will produce a good bill of exchange at the
current exchange of such bills, and also eight per cent, damages
upon the value 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,

Ibid. sec. 5. 1785, ch. 38, sec. 3.

5. If any endorser of any such bill shall pay to the owner of
holder thereof the value of the principal and the damages and
interest aforesaid, such endorser shall have a right to recover the
sum paid, with legal interest upon the same, from the drawer or
any person, company or corporation liable to such endorser upon
such bill of exchange.

Ibid. sec. 6. 1837, ch. 253.

6. A protest, duly made by a notary public, of a promissory
note for non-payment, or of a bill of exchange, whether foreign