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STATE OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 161

.Sunday ; and all such bills, checks, drafts and notes presentable
for acceptance or payment on Saturdays shall be deemed to

Proviso.

be presentable for acceptance or payment 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 otherwise payable on any half-holiday Saturday
shall be deemed to be and shall be payable on the next suc-
ceeding 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 check, 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 ; and provided further, that when any person
shall receive for collection, in Ellicott City, any bill of exchange,
bank check or promissory note due and presentable for accept-
ance 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 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 provisions of said
section shall be a legal holiday.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 8, 1902.

CHAPTER 152.
AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioner's of Calvert
County to levy a sum of money to build a school house in
Third District of said County.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Tax to be
levied.

the State of Maryland, That the County Commissioners of
Calvert county be and they are hereby authorized and directed
to levy at their next levy laying the sum of four hundred
($400) dollars to build a school house in Third election district
of said county at Hall's Creek, to replace one destroyed by fire,
for colored children.