Registering a common sea protest, Registering an obligation, letter of attorney, bill of sale, or other Taking and certifying, under hand and notarial seal, the acknowledgment of a deed, letter of attorney, or other instru ment, Administering and certifying, under hand and notarial seal, oath Drawing affidavit, or deposition, two cents a line. Certificate under hand and notarial seal, when no other service MARYLAND. $0.75 1.00 4.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 0.50 0.35 Chap. 253. 1.-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-payment or non-acceptance, 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. 2. When such protest shall state that notice of such non-payment or non-acceptance has been sent or delivered to the party or parties to such note or bill, and the manner of such notice, such protest shall be prima facie evidence that such notice has been sent or delivered in the manner therein stated. Fees of Notaries Public. -The fees to be received by the notaries public shall be Drawing all proceedings not exceeding two sides, fifty cents; drawing all proceedings exceeding two sides, twenty cents per side; registering or copying proceedings, for every such side, ten cents; presenting a bill of exchange for acceptance, if accepted and not afterwards protested for non-payment, one dollar; presenting a bill or note for payment, if paid when presented, one dollar; noting a bill for non-acceptance, if not protested for non-acceptance or non-payment, one dollar; protesting a bill or note, or the like, for non-acceptance or non-payment, one dollar and seventy-five cents; noting a marine protest, one dollar; affixing notarial seal, fifty cents; for every search where no copy is made, twenty-five cents; administering an oath or taking an acknowledgment, twelve and a half cents; and for all other acts and services in proportion to the aforesaid fees, to be paid at the time of doing the same. OHIO. Bills of Exchange and Negotiable Instruments. By Chapter 75 of the Revised Statutes, all bonds, promissory notes, and bills of exchange, inland and foreign, drawn for any sum of money certain, and made payable to any person or order, or to any person or bearer, or to any person or assigns, are made negotiable by indorsement; three days of grace are allowed, and notice must be given to indorsers within a reasonable time after non-payment, unless the indorsement shall express in writing other conditions. 10. Sect. 1. (Damages on Foreign protested Bills of Exchange.) — When any bill of exchange shall be drawn for the payment of any sum of money, and such bill shall be legally protested for non-acceptance or nonpayment, the drawer or drawers, indorser or indorsers, shall be subject to the payment of twelve per cent. damages thereon, if drawn on any person or body corporate without the jurisdiction of the United States; and nine per cent. damages thereon, if drawn on any person or body corporate within the jurisdiction of the United States, and without the jurisdiction of this State; and the bills shall in all cases bear an interest of six per cent. from the date of the protest, until the money therein drawn for shall be fully satisfied and paid. (It has been decided under this section, that the right of a party to damages does not depend upon the place of payment, but upon the place of residence of the drawer. No damages are allowed upon a bill drawn upon a person in Ohio, payable in a sister State, and protested for nonpayment.) 11. Sect. II. It shall be lawful for any person, having a right to demand any sum of money upon any protested bill of exchange as aforesaid, to commence and prosecute an action for principal, damages, and charges of protest, against the drawers or indorsers, jointly or severally, or against either of them separately. And judgment shall and may be given for such principal, damages, and charges, and interest upon such principal after the rate aforesaid, to the time of such judgment, together with costs of suit. Fees of Notaries. Chap. 77, 6. Sect. II. Every notary may demand and receive for every attestation, protestation, or other instrument of publication, under the seal of his office, the sum of fifty cents, and no more; and for recording in a book, to be kept for that purpose, each attestation, protestation, or other instrument of publication, fifty cents, and no more. KENTUCKY. Regarding Bills of Exchange. 1. It is enacted, that where any foreign bill of exchange is or shall be drawn for the payment of any sum of money in which the value is or shall be expressed to be received, and where such foreign bill is or shall be protested for non-acceptance or non-payment, the same shall carry interest from the date thereof, after the rate of ten per cent. per ar num, until the money therein drawn for shall be fully satisfied and paid but lest any person having such foreign bill should, for the sake of the said interest, delay negotiating the same, or if after it shall be protested, shall not demand payment of the drawer or indorser thereof, it is hereby declared, that no person whatever shall pay more than eighteen months' interest from the date of any bill to the time it shall be presented protested to the drawer, indorser, or indorsers thereof. § 3. And that all foreign bills of exchange which are or shall be protested, shall, after the death of the drawer or indorser thereof, be`accounted of equal dignity with a judgment; and the executors or admin. istrators of every such drawer or indorser shall be compelled to suffer judgment to pass against them for all debts due upon protested foreign bills of exchange, before any bond, bill, or other debt of equal or inferior dignity, under the penalty of being liable to pay the same out of their own proper goods. 4. If a bill of exchange for the sum of five pounds or upwards, dated at any place in Kentucky, drawn upon a person at any other place therein, expressed to be for value received, and payable at a certain number of days, weeks, or months after date, being presented to the person upon whom it shall be drawn, shall not be accepted, by subscribing his name with his proper hand to the acceptance, written at the foot or on the back of the bill, or, being accepted in that manner, and not otherwise, shall not be paid before the expiration of three days after it shall become due, the person to whom it shall be payable, or his agent or assigns, may cause the same tʊ be protested by a notary public, or if there be no such, by any other person, in the presence of two or more credible witnesses, for non-acceptance, in the form or to the effect following, written under a fair copy of the bill : — “Know all men that I, ——————————, on the day of —, at the usual place of abode of the above-named presented to him the bill of which the above is a copy, and which said did not accept, whereof I, the said do hereby protest the said bill, dated at — this day of — or for non-payment after acceptance in the same form or to the same effect, except that the words be inserted, “demanded payment of the bill of which the above is a copy, and which the said not pay." And the drawer, such protest being sent to him, or notice thereof in writing being given to him, or left at the place of his usual abode within fourteen days thereafter, shall pay the money mentioned in the bill to the person entitled to it, with legal interest from the day of the protest; and he to whom the bill shall be payable, neglect. ing to procure the protest to be made, or due notice thereof to be given, shall be liable for all costs and damages accruing thereby; if the bill shall be lost or shall miscarry, the drawer shall assign and deliver an did * Indorsements on negotiable notes of the grade of foreign bills are embraced by the above statute concerning interest Reid v. Bank of Kentucky, 1 Mon. 93 other of the same tenor, sufficient security being given to indemnify him against all persons who may claim under the former Fees of Notaries Public. Notaries shall and may demand and receive for every attestation, protestation, and all other instruments of publication, under their seal of office, the sum of eighty-three cents, and no more; and for recording in a book to be kept for that purpose each attestation, protestation, and all other instruments of publication, the sum of eighty-three cents, and no more. MISSOURI. Bills of Exchange. Chap. 18, 6. Every person upon whom a bill of exchange may be drawn, and to whom the same shall be delivered for acceptance, who shall destroy such bill, or refuse, within twenty-four hours after such delivery, or within such period as the holder may allow, to return the bill, accepted or non-accepted, to the holder, shall be deemed to have accepted the same. § 15. Every promissory note for the payment of money, expressed on the face thereof to be for "value received, negotiable and payable with out defalcation," shall be due and payable as therein expressed, and shall have the same effect, and be negotiable in like manner, as inland bills of exchange. Fees of Notaries. For noting a bill of exchange or note for protest, For entering protest of same, For registering a protest, For noting without protest, For notice to each indorser or other party, For travel per mile, $0.10 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.10 0.05 ILLINOIS. Fees of Notaries. For noting a bond, promissory note, or bill of exchange, for For drawing and copy of protest of the non-payment of a promissory note, etc., or of the non-acceptance of a bill, in cases where by law such protest is necessary, $0.25 0.50 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 For drawing and copy of every other protest, Fees of Notaries. For recording in a well-bound book, to be by him kept for that purpose, each attestation, protestation, and other instrument $0.25 0.25 of publication, VIRGINIA. Fees of Notaries. $2.00 For the record of protest, making out instrument of protest under his official seal, and notice of dishonor to one person besides the maker of a note or acceptor of a bill, For every additional notice, GEORGIA. Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes. $ 1.00 0.10 Some of the statutes of England have been adopted, and by them it has been enacted, that all and every bill of exchange, drawn within the State on any other place in the State, of the sum of five pounds sterling, or upwards, and payable a certain time after date or sight, if accepted by underwriting the same, and if not paid after three days' grace, the holder of the bill may and shall cause the bill to be protested by a notary public, and if there be no such officer, by any other substantial person of the place in the presence of two or more credible witnesses, which protest shall be written under a fair written copy of the bill in the form following: "Know all men that I, A. B., on the usual place of abode of the said day of at the have demanded payment of did not the bill, of the which the above is a copy, which the said day of do hereby protest the said bill. Which protest, so made as aforesaid, shall within fourteen days after making thereof be sent, or otherwise due notice shall be given thereof, to the party from whom the said bills were received, who is, upon producing such protest, to repay the bills, together with all the interest and charges from the day such bills were protested; and in case of neglect of making protest and giving notice within the time specified above, the person so neglecting thereof is and shall be liable to all costs, damages, and interest which shall accrue thereby. Bills lost or miscarried. — In case any such inland bills of exchange |