Section 4 Summary execution.Method of protesting where payment is denied, &c.

And for rendering the payment of all notes, accepted bills, . . . F1, tickets, tokens, or other writings, for money, of the nature of a bank, or banker’s note, circulated, or to be circulated, as specie, in that part of the United Kingdom, more effectual, from and after the passing of this Act, summary execution shall proceed upon every such note, accepted bill, . . . , ticket, token, or other writing, at the instance of the holder thereof, against the person or persons, bodies politick or corporate, and the legal administrators of such person or persons liable in payment of the same, not only for the sum or sums therein contained, but also for the interest thereof from the time of demanding payment; and that a protest, taken at the office of the person or persons, bodies politick or corporate, liable in payment of the same, between the hours of nine in the morning and three in the afternoon, for not payment, or for not marking of any such note, accepted bill, . . . , ticket, token, or other writing, shall be registerable in the Courts of Session or other competent judicatories, at any time within six months after the date of such protest; that . . . F2the usual execution of the law of Scotland, may pass thereupon, in the same manner as is competent by the law of Scotland, upon protests of bills of exchange, and inland bills duly registered.