Volume 22
Public Law 47–2
to amend section nine hundred and ninety-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States for the District of Columbia, and an act entitled “An act to amend section nine hundred and ninety-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States for the District of Columbia”, approved January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.
Approved December 20, 1881
Statutory text
An Act
to amend section nine hundred and ninety-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States for the District of Columbia, and an act entitled “An act to amend section nine hundred and ninety-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States for the District of Columbia”, approved January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That whenever any day set apart as a legal holiday within the District of Columbia shall fall on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, then and in such event the day next succeeding shall be a holiday within the District of Columbia, and shall for all purposes of presenting for payment or acceptance, for the maturity and protest and giving notice of the dishonor of bills of exchange, bank-checks, and promissory notes or other negotiable or commercial paper, be treated and considered as is the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, and all notes, drafts, cheeks, or other commercial or negotiable paper falling due or maturing on such holiday shall be deemed as having matured on the Saturday previous.
Approved, December 20, 1881.