LAWS OF MARYLAND

MARYLAND, Sct:

At a session of the General Assembly of Maryland, begun

and held in the City of Annapolis, on the third day of

January, 1904, His Excellency, EDWIN WARFIELD, being

Governor, the following laws were enacted, to wit:

CHAPTER 1.

AN ACT declaring sundry days in the month of February,

1904, to be legal holidays and providing that acts and things

required to be performed on any of such days may be per-

formed at a later day.

WHEREAS, By a visitation of providence the City of Baltimore

has been afflicted with an appalling disaster in the shape of the
most destructive conflagration that has ever visited that city,

Baltimore's
great fire.

and,

WHEREAS, The public interests imperatively demand that

there shall be an opportunity afforded the people of that city
and of this State to recover in some measure from the calamity

Imperative
demand.

that has befallen them; now, therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land. That the following days, namely, the eighth, ninth, tenth,

eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth days of

the month of February in the year 1904 shall be legal holidays,

and shall for all purposes whatsoever as regards the present-
ing for payment or acceptance, and the protesting and giving

Special legal
bank holi-

of notice of the dishonor of bills of exchange, bank checks,

days.

drafts and promissory notes, be treated and considered as the

first day of the week commonly called Sunday; that all such

bills, drafts, checks, and notes presentable for payment or

acceptance on such days, or any of them shall be deemed to

be so presentable on the sixteenth day of February, 1904.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Governor of this
State be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to ex-

Governor's
proclamation

tend by proclamation the said period from and after the fifteenth

on the same.