MARVIN MANDEL, Governor
the inconsistency.

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SECTION 5. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1974.

Approved April 30, 1974.

AH ACT concerning

CHAPTER 440
(House Bill 320)

Legal Holidays

FOR the purpose of making January 15 of each year, the
birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a legal
holiday, and deleting references to "Martin Luther
King Day" as a day of prayer; and correcting an
error therein.

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments.

Article 13 - Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes

Section 9

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1968 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 9 of Article 13 - Bills of
Exchange and Promissory Notes, of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1968 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement) be
and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

Article 13 — Bills of Exchange and promissory Notes

9.

The following days in each and every year, namely
the first day of January, commonly called "New Years'
Day"; THE 15TH DAT OF JANUARY, KNOWN AS THE BIRTHDAY OF
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR; the 12th day of February,
known as "Lincoln's Birthday"; the third Monday in
February, known as "Washington's Birthday"; the 25th day
of March known as "Maryland Day"; "Good Friday"; the
first Monday in September, commonly called "Labor Day";
the last Monday in May, commonly called "Memorial Day";