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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 succeeding
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 dis-
honor thereof may be given on the next succeeding secu-
lar or business day; and provided, further, that when any
person shall receive for collection in said Baltimore county
any bill of exchange, bank check, or promissory note due and
presentable for acceptance 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 o'clock 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.

4. It shall be unlawful for any person at any time to
shoot or otherwise kill or injure, or pursue with such intent,
any of the following named birds, within the limits of Balti-
more, county and Cecil county, viz: blue bird, thrush, martin
mocking bird, swallow, oriole, red bird, cat bird, sparrow,
whippoorwill, wren, pewit, goldfinch, sapsucker, ground
robin, hanging bird or woodpecker.

5. It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly and un-
necessarily to destroy or disturb the eggs of any of the above
mentioned birds.

6. Any person violating either of the two preceding sec-
tions, shall, on conviction thereof, be fined a sum not less than
two dollars and not more than ten dollars for each offense,
with the costs of prosecution; and all prosecutions shall be in
the name of the. State, before a justice of the peace of the
election district in which such violation may occur; provided
that any one applying to the clerk of the Circuit Court for
Baltimore county may obtain a permit, good for one year from
the date of issue, by paying to the said clerk the sum of five