Notaries public shall have authority to demand acceptance and payment of foreign bills of exchange and to protest the same for nonacceptance and nonpayment, and to exercise such other powers and duties as by the law of nations and according to commercial usages notaries public may do.
D.C. Code § 1-1207
Foreign bills of exchange
Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1279, ch. 854, § 565
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