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![handle is hein.sstatutes/acodge0002 and id is 1 raw text is: CHAPTER 34
HOLIDAYS
SEC. SEC.
2042. Robert E. Lee's birthday a holi- 2044. Teachers allowed pay for holiday.
day. 2045. Legal holidays-When bills of ex-
2043: Thanksgiving day, a legal holiday, change presentable.
Negotiable instruments, Saturday a holiday, § 2663.
2042. Robert E. Lee's birthday a holiday.-1. That January 19th, the
birthday of our beloved Confederate Chieftain and Southern Hero, General
Robert Edward Lee, be made a legal holiday through the State of Mississippi.
(Laws 1910, ch. 171. In effect March 30, 1910.)
2043. Thanksgiving day, a legal holiday.-That after the issuance of a
proclamation by the governor in any year hereinafter designating a day to be
observed as Thanksgiving day, that all the public schools taught in the state
shall observe the day as Thanksgiving day, and it shall be declared a legal
holiday for all public schools, and no session shall be held during that day.
(Laws 1916, ch. 125. In effect March 24, 1916.)
2044. Teachers allowed pay for holiday.-2. That the observance of the
day by the teachers of public schools shall not be deducted from their reports
made to the county superintendents of education, but that they shall be allowed
pay for full time as though they had taught on this day. (Laws 1916, ch. 125.
In effect March 24, 1916.)
2045. (4011.) Legal holidays-When bills of exchange presentable.-The
following are declared to be legal holidays, viz.: The first day of January (New
Year's day); the twenty-second day of February (Washington's birthday);
the twenty-sixth day of April (Memorial day) ; the third day of June (Jeffer-
son Davis' birthday) ; the fourth day of July (Independence day) ; the first
Monday in September (Labor day); the fourth Thursday in November
(Thanksgiving day); the twenty-fiftl day of December (Christmas day).
[When the day on which a bill of exchange or promissory note should be pre-
sented for acceptance or payment, according to its terms, shall be a Sunday or
a legal holiday, it shall be presentable on such day next before the day on which
by its terms it is presentable as shall not be one of the days herein specified.]
Negotiable instruments maturing on holidays are C ayable on the next succeeding
business day. See NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS, § 2663.
That part of the foregoing section in parenthesis does not apply to negotiable
instruments. See NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS, § 2663.
An ordinance of a city, adopted on a day made a legal holiday by Code 1906,
§ 4011, is not void. Griffith v. Vicksburg, 102 Miss. 1, 58 So. 781.
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