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noted for protest before the expiration of the specified time or the taking of the proceeding; and the formal protest may be extended at any time thereafter as of the date of the noting.

95. Where a dishonoured bill or note is authorised or required Protest when notary to be protested, and the services of a notary cannot be obtained at the not accessible. place where the bill is dishonoured, any householder or substantial resident of the place may, in the presence of two witnesses, give a certificate, signed by them, attesting the dishonour of the bill, and the certificate shall in all respects operate as if it were a formal protest of the bill.

The form given in the Schedule to this Act may be used with necessary modifications, and, if used, shall be sufficient.

96. The provisions of this Act as to crossed cheques shall Dividend warrants apply to a warrant for payment of dividend.

may be crossed.

twenty shillings.

97. (1.) A negotiable bill, other than a cheque, and a negotiable Bills and notes under note, other than a postal note, shall not be drawn or made for any sum less than twenty shillings.

(2.) An instrument which contravenes this rule shall be void, and any person who issues or negotiates it shall be liable, on summary conviction before two justices in petty sessions, to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, and not less than twenty shillings.

(3.) Provided that no complaint under this section shall be entertained if made after the expiration of thirty days from the commission of the offence.

98. "The Bills of Exchange Act of 1867" and "The Bills of Repeal. Exchange Act of 1879" shall be and the same are hereby repealed.

Provided that such repeal shall not affect anything done or suffered, or any right, title, or interest acquired or accrued before the commencement of this Act, or any legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such thing, right, title, or interest.

99. (1.) The rules in insolvency relating to bills of exchange, Savings. promissory notes, and cheques shall continue to apply thereto notwithstanding anything in this Act contained.

(2.) The rules of common law including the law-merchant, save in so far as they are inconsistent with the express provisions of this Act, shall continue to apply to bills of exchange, promissory notes, and cheques.

(3.) Nothing

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(3.) Nothing in this Act, or in any repeal effected thereby, shall affect

(a.) The provisions of "The Stamp Duties Act of 1866," or Acts amending or in substitution for it, or any law or enactment for the time being in force relating to the

revenue;

(b.) The provisions of "The Companies Act, 1863," or Acts amending it, or any Act relating to joint stock banks or companies.

100. Where any Act or document refers to any enactment repealed by this Act, the Act or document shall be construed, and shall operate, as if it referred to the corresponding provisions of this Act.

THE SCHEDULE.

Form of protest which may be used when the services of a notary cannot be obtained.
Know all men that I, A.B. (householder), of
Queensland, at the request of C.D., there being no notary public

day of

in the Colony of available, did, on the (aforesaid, or in the exchange (hereunto

said colony), demand payment (or acceptance) of the bill of
annexed or hereunder written) from E.F., to which demand he made answer (state
answer, if any); wherefore I now, in the presence of G.H. and J.K., do protest the
said bill of exchange.
A. B.

(Signed)

G. H., Witnesses.

N.B.-The bill itself should be annexed, or a copy of the bill, and all that is written thereon should be underwritten.

An Act to Explain certain Provisions of "The Succession Act of 1867."

WH

[ASSENTED TO 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1884.

HEREAS doubts have arisen whether the provisions of the Preamble. seventh section of the Act of the first year of King James the Second, entitled "An Act for reviving and continuance of several Acts of Parliament therein mentioned," have been repealed by "The Succession Act of 1867," and it is expedient to remove such doubts: Be it therefore declared and enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

c. 17 in force.

1. The provisions of the seventh section of the said first- 7th Section 1 Jas. 2 mentioned Act are, and have always been in force in the Colony of Queensland, so that if after the death of a father any of his children shall die, or shall have died intestate, without wife and

children,

Short title.

Succession Act Declaratory Act.

children, in the lifetime of the mother, every brother and sister, and the representatives of them, shall have, and shall be deemed to have had an equal share with her in the surplusage of the estate of such intestate.

Provided always that nothing herein contained shall of itself invalidate or disturb the distribution of the estate of any intestate person heretofore made upon the assumption that the mother was entitled to the whole of the surplusage thereof.

2. This Act may be cited as " The Succession Act Declaratory

Act of 1884."

An Act to Amend "The Native Birds Protection Act of 1877."

[ASSENTED TO 13TH OCTOBER, 1884.

WHEREAS it is desirable to further amend "The Native Birds Preamble.

Protection Act of 1877": Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. The Governor in Council may by proclamation declare any Power to proclaim Crown Lands, and, with the consent of the owner or occupier thereof, Reserves. any other lands, as Reserves for the protection and preservation of such Native Birds as are specified in such proclamation, and from time to time may amend, vary, or annul the same.

2. There shall be set up at convenient and conspicuous places Notices to be set up. on the boundaries of every such Reserve, not more than half-a-mile apart, notices legibly written or printed, stating that the Reserve has been so proclaimed, and indicating in a concise manner the extent of the Reserve.