By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Legislature, that:

SECTION 1. Section one of Act Numbered Three hundred and forty-five, as last amended by section one of Act Numbered Eighteen hundred and eighteen, is hereby further amended so as to read as follows:

"SECTION 1. The first day of each week, commonly called Sunday, the first of January, the twenty-second of February, Thursday and Friday of what is commonly called Holy Week, the first of May, to be known as Labor Day, the thirtieth of May, to be known as Memorial Day in honor of the soldiers and sailors of the United States who gave up their lives for their country, the Fourth of July, the thirteenth of August, Thanksgiving Day, the twenty-fifth of Additional holidays. December, and the thirtieth of December shall be public holidays. The first Tuesday of June, nineteen hundred and twelve, and of each fourth year thereafter, and the days which may be proclaimed by virtue of section two hereof shall also be public holidays in all those provinces and Assembly districts in which elections are held under Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and eighty-two. Public holidays shall not be legally recognized as days for presenting for payment or acceptance, for the maturity and protest, and for giving notice of the dishonor of bills of exchange, bank checks, and promissory notes, or other commercial or negotiable paper; and all notes, drafts, checks, or other commercial or negotiable paper falling due or maturing on any of said public holidays shall be deemed as having matured on the day previous: Provided, That in the case of notes, drafts, checks, or other commercial or negotiable paper falling due or maturing on any public holiday when the preceding day is also a public holiday, the same shall be deemed as having matured on the last preceding day which is not a public holiday."

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, February G, 1912.