What is "to note a bill"

Note \Note\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Noted; p. pr. & vb. n. Noting.] [F. noter, L. notare, fr. nota. See Note, n.]

1. To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed; to attend to.
   --Pope.

   No more of that; I have noted it well.
   --Shak.

   The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
   --Abraham Lincoln (Gettysburg Address, 1863).

2. To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.

   Every unguarded word . . . was noted down.
   --Maccaulay.

3. To charge, as with crime (with of or for before the thing charged); to brand. [Obs.]

   They were both noted of incontinency.
   --Dryden.

4. To denote; to designate.
   --Johnson.

5. To annotate. [R.]
   --W. H. Dixon.

6. To set down in musical characters.

   To note a bill or To note a draft, to record on the back of it a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary.