Chap. 21.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section §758 of the Code of Virginia,
and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend section 2844 of the Code of

Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to public holidays, approved
February 20, 1918. [H B 51]

Approved February 17, 1922.

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

Sec. 5758. Public holidays ; when bills, notes and so forth, other-
wise presentable on any such holiday or on Saturday to be presentable.
—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 or recommended by the
governor of this State or the president of the United States as a day
of thanksgiving or fasting and prayer, or other religious observances,
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 pro-
testing of negotiable 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 construed 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 proceed-
ings 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, banking corporation, firm or association from keep-
ing their doors open and transacting any lawful business on any of the
said public holidays or Saturdays.

2. An act entitled an act to amend section twenty-eight hundred
and forty-four of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in
relation to public holidays, approved February twentieth, nineteen
hundred and eighteen, is hereby repealed.