ART. 13] PROTEST—DAMAGES. 323

1888, art 13, sec. 3. 1860, art. 14, sec. 3. 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, com-
pany of corporation of this State, or any person therein resid-
ing 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. I860, art. 14, 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. 1860, art. 14, sec. 5. 1785, ch. 36, sec. 3

5. If any endorser of any such bill shall pay to the owner
or 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. 1860, art. 14, 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
or inland, for non-acceptance or non-payment, shall be prima
facie evidence of such non-acceptance or non-payment, and of
the presentment of such note for payment, or of such bill for
acceptance or payment, at the time and in the manner stated
in the protest.

Burt v. Gwinn, 4 H. & J. 507. Bank v. Magruder, 6 H. & J. 172. White-
ford v. Burckmyer, 1 Gill, 127. Barry v. Crowley, 4 Gill, 194. Bell v.
Hagerstown Bank, 7 Gill, 223. Graham v. Sangston, 1 Md. 66. Hunter v.
Van Bomhorst, 1 Md. 511. Boehme v. Carr, 3 Md. 202. Nailor v. Bowie,