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days that may be appointed or recommended by the governor
of this State, or the president of the United States, as days of
thanksgiving, or fasting and prayer, or other religious observ-
ance, or for the general cessation of business, shall be regarded
as legal holidays, and shall be duly observed as such, and
shall for all purposes whatsoever as regards the presenting for
payment or acceptance and of the protesting and giving notice
of the dishonor of bills of exchange, bank checks, drafts and
promissory notes be treated and considered as the first day of
the week, commonly called "Sunday;" and all such bills,
drafts, checks and notes presented for payment or acceptance
on these said days shall be deemed to be presentable for
acceptance or payment on the secular or business day next pre-
ceding such holiday.*
Handy v. Maddox, 85 Md. 549.

1888, art. 13, sec. 10. 1882, ch. 23.

10. Whenever the first day of January, the twenty-second
day of February, the fourth day of July, or the twenty-fifth
day of December shall, either of them, occur on Sunday, the
Monday next following shall be deemed and shall be treated as
a public holiday, for all or any of the purposes aforesaid;
, provided, however, that in such case all bills of exchange, bank
checks, drafts and promissory notes, which would otherwise be
presentable for acceptance or for payment on either of the
Mondays so observed as a holiday, shall be deemed to be pre-
sentable for acceptance or for payment on the Saturday next
preceding such holiday; and such Mondays so observed shall,
for all purposes whatever, as regards the presenting for pay-
ment or acceptance, and of the protesting and giving notice of
the dishonor of bills of exchange, bank checks, drafts and
promissory notes, be also treated and considered as is the first
day of the week, commonly called Sunday.

Ibid. sec. 11. 1876, ch. 345.

11. No party, otherwise entitled to sue and recover in any
suit at law upon or under any promissory note, bill of
exchange, bill of lading, warehouse or storage receipt, or other
negotiable instrument, shall be precluded from so recovering

The provisions of this Section 9 and the succeeding Section 10 as to the time of pre-
sentment of negotiable Instruments applies only to Instruments made and delivered
prior to March 29, 1898, the date of the approval of the " Negotiable Instruments' Act"
1898, ch. 119. (See Section 18, pott, page 327, also Section IM, pott, page 343.)