WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 23.

AN ACT to designate the Holidays to be observed

in the Acceptance and Payment of Bills of Ex-

change, Bank Checks, Drafts and Promissory

Notes.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the following days in each

and every year, viz. : The first day of January,

commonly called New Year's Day; the twenty-

second day of February, known as Washington's

Birthday; the fourth day of July, called Indepen-

Legal holidays

dence Day; the twenty-fifth of December, known

as Christmas Day; Good Friday; all days of gene-

ral and congressional elections throughout the State ;

and all special days that may be appointed or

recommended by the Governor of this State, or by

the President, of the United States, as days of thanks-

giving or fasting and prayer, or other religious ob-

servance, or for the general cessation of business,

shall be regarded as legal holidays, and shall be duly

observed as such, and shall for all purposes whatso-

ever, as regards the presenting for payment or accept-

ance, and of the protesting and giving notice of the

dishonor of bills of exchange, bank checks, drafts

and promissory notes, be treated and considered as the

Treated as the

first, day of the week, commonly called Sunday; and

first day of the

all such bills, checks, drafts and notes presentable for

week.

acceptance or payment on these said days shall be

deemed to be presentable for acceptance or payment

on the secular or business day next preceding such

holiday.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That whenever the first

day of January, the twenty-second day of Febru-

ary, the fourth day of July, or the twenty-fifth day of

December shall, either of them, occur on Sunday, the

Monday next following shall be deemed and shall be

treated as a public holiday for all or any of the pur-

Treated as a
public holiday

poses aforesaid; provided, however, that in such case

all bills of exchange, bank checks, drafts and prom-

issory notes, which would otherwise be presentable

for acceptance or for payment on either of the Mon-

days so observed as a holiday, shall be deemed to be

presentable for acceptance or for payment on the