Chap. 12.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5758 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, in relation to public holidays. [S B 12]

Approved February 11, 1932

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fifty-seven hundred and fifty-eight of the Code of Virginia, as amended
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 5758. In each year, the first day of January, nineteenth
day of January (known as Lee-Jackson day), the twenty-second day
of February, the thirtieth day of May (Confederate memorial day),
the third day of June (Jefferson Davis day), the fourth day of July,
the first Monday in September (known as labor day), the Tuesday
next following the first Monday in November (known as election day),
the eleventh day of November (armistice day), the twenty-fifth day of
December, or whenever any of said days shall fall on Sunday, the
Monday next following such day, and any day appointed by the gov-
ernor of this State or the President of the United States, shall be a
legal holiday ; and every Saturday after twelve o’clock noon, shall be a
half holiday as to the transaction of all business, except as to maturity,
the presentment for acceptance or payment and the protesting of nego-
tiable instruments, as hereinafter provided. But no contract made,
instrument enacted, or act done on any of said public holidays, or on
any Saturday, whether before or after twelve o’clock noon, shall be
thereby rendered invalid, and nothing in this section shall be con-
strued to prevent or invalidate the entry, issuance, service or execution
of any writ, summons, confession, judgment order or decree, or other
legal process whatever, or the session of the proceedings of any court
or judge on any of the said public holidays or Saturdays, either before
or after twelve o’clock noon; nor to prevent any bank, banker, bank-
ing corporation, firm or association from keeping their doors open and
transacting any lawful business on any of the said public holidays or
Saturdays.