For loading or unloading ships in mari time commerce, in the absence of any statute to the contrary or established general usage, the annual fast day in Massachusetts must be considered as an ordinary working day ; The Tangier, 1 Cliff, 383, Fed. Cas. No. 13, 743.
In the absence of statutory requisitions it 'was held that a school should be allowed the legal holidays without deduction of salary to the teachers ; School Dist. No. 4 v. Gage, 39 Mich. 484, 33 Am. Rep. 421.
The taking of an acknowledgment or deposition is usually held valid if performed upon a legal holiday, as being not a judicial act but private business; Rogers v. Brooks, 30 Ark. 612 ; Green v. Walker, 73 Wis. 548, 41 N. W. 534; Slater v. Schack, 41 Minn. 269, 43 N. W. 7. Under a statute excluding from computation of time for serving papers 'Sunday, a holiday, or Saturday, which is made a half-holiday, is excluded; Fries v. Coar, 19 Abb. N. C. 267.
An act making Saturday afternoon a legal half-holiday so far as regards the transac tion of business in the public offices does not apply to proceedings by a municipal common council, and an ordinance passed on Satur day afternoon is valid ; Mueller v. Egg Har bor City, 55 N. J. L. 245, 26 Atl. 89.
Acts designating holidays for the pre sentment and payment of commercial paper constitute them such for that purpose only ; State v. Atkinson, 139 Ind. 426, 39 N. E. 51.
Such an act does not apply to other business transactions ; Nat. Mut. Benefit Ass'n v. Miller, 85 Ky. 88, 2 S. W. 900. An act pro viding that a holiday shall be considered the same as Sunday, and an act forbidding the holding of courts on Sunday, and one forbid ding service of process on ]february 22d do not invalidate a sale on that day under a power in a deed of trust; Stewart v. Brown, 112 Mo. 171, 20 S. W. 451.
Under a statute providing that no court shall be open or transact any business on any legal holiday, unless it be to instruct or discharge a jury, or receive a verdict and render judgment thereon, an assign ment for the benefit of creditors was not avoided by the fact that the assignee's bond was approved by a court commissioner on a legal holiday, though that be considered a judicial act ; Spaulding & Bro. v. Bernhard, 76 Wis. 368, 44 N. W. 643, 7 L. R. A. 423, 20 Am. St. Rep. 75., Under a rule of reference fixing Decoration Day as the day for choos ing arbitrators, the defendant could not be required to attend on a legal holiday and the proceedings were void; Doles v. Powell, 9 Pa. Co. Ct. Rep. 207.
See, generally, a very full note and col lection of statutes and authorities; 29 Am. L. Reg. N. S. 137; Merchants Nat. Bank v. Jaffrey, 36 Neb. 218, 54 N. W. 258, 19 L. R. A. 316 ; 4 Am. & Eng. Corp. Cas. 347; 7 So. L. Rev. 697.