Chap. 20.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2844 of the Code of Virginia,
in relation to public holidays. and as to when bills, notes, etc., otherwise pre-
sentable on any such holidays are to be presentable, as amended and re-enacted
by acts of the general assembly approved February 28, 1890, February 5, 1892,
February 19, 1896, and April 2, 1902, and to establish the entire day of every
Saturday as a public holiday and a non-secular and non-business day as regards
negotiable instruments, and to relieve all persons of the duty of presenting, pro-
testing, collecting, or giving notice of the non-acceptance, non-payment, or dis-
honor of any instrument whatever made after this act shall take effect on any
public holiday, Saturday or Sunday, but permitting all such notices to be given
on said days.

Approved July 28, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-eight hundred and forty-four of the Code of Virginia, as amended
and re-enacted by the acts of the general assembly approved February
twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety, February fifth, eighteen
hundred and ninety-two, February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-six, and April second, nineteen hundred and two, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2844. Public holidays; when bills, notes, etc., otherwise presentable
on any such holiday or on Saturday to be presentable. —All days now or
hereafter designated or established by law as public holidays in this State,
and the entire day of every Saturday, shall, for all purposes whatsover
as regards the maturity, the presenting for ‘acceptance or payment, and
of protesting and giving notice of the dishonor of any bill of exchange,
draft, check, negotiable note, or other negotiable instrument, made on or
after the day on which this act shall take effect, constitute and shall be
considered and treated as public holidays, and as non-secular and non-
business days, and shall be so considered and construed within the mean-
ing of the act of the general assembly approved on the third day of
March, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, known as the negotiable in-
strument law; and every such bill of exchange, draft, check, negotiable
note, or other negotiable instrument, which would otherwise be present-
able for acceptance or payment on any of the said holidays or Saturdays,
or on a Sunday, shall be deemed to be presentable for acceptance or pay-
ment on the next succeeding secular or business day. And no person,
firm, corporation, association, or company shall be deemed guilty of any
neglect or omission of duty, nor incur any liability in not presenting for
acceptance or payment, or in not collecting, or in not protesting, or in not
giving notice of the non-acceptance, non-payment, or dishonor of any
instrument, whether negotiable or non-negotiable, made on or after the
day on which this act shall take effect on any of the said public holidays,
or on any Saturday or Sunday: provided, however, that notice of the non-
acceptance, non-payment, dishonor, or protest of any such instrument as
is hereinbefore specified may be given on any such holiday, Saturday, or
Sunday with the same effect as if it were a secular or business day.

2. Nothing contained in this act shall affcct the liabilities or duties of
any person in respect to any bill of exchange, draft, check, negotiable
note, or other negotiable instrument made, endorsed, or accepted before
the day on which this act shall take effect; but the duties and liabilities
of any person in relation to all such instruments shall be the same as if
this act had not been passed.

3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

4. This act shall take effect on the first day of August, nineteen hun-
dred and two.