Bisbee daily review., 1909-11-05
GQg. HAS NO AUTHORITY
 T0 FIX HOLIDAYS
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sour visitors and to attend the Tersi. torial fair.
 And the banks who hold pgonissory | notes. and who are acting as scrow l holders of options on mines, as well | as commercial men geneTalaE are won dering where they are at" Now the question arises if an option expires on any day between Nov Sth, to Nov 18th inclusive, must payment be made during some one of the Sorenoons Of those days, or may Ihs party wait till the 18th ofsNovember? L.kewise must promissory note or other legal period of time proclaimed as a holi- day, by the acting governor?
 It seems to be another ease of child playing w3gh fine
 In the first JIaoe the statutes Uf Arizona provide what are legal holi- days. They as .SunfiHy; tthe 1st ot January; the 22d of February; the 3Oth of May; Ihe 4th of July; Fthe 25th of Decemher; the day on which a general e9eotfun is ifd8d; ~Thanksgiv- ing Day, and 4AIDor Day
 The statutes provide that: Public offices shah andl be opened on holi- days. No court of justice shall be opened, nor shall any Judicial busi-. ness be transacted, orgsny legal holi- day, exCert for the Following pur- nosoe- zTlr sSfx,a ,,--1l,r,s bj.fir ,.ao,,ae+ ;r structiOns rD a jury. when deiiberat- ing on their veTTiact; to receive a yer dict or disearge "a jury; for the exer- else Of the power of "a magistrate in a criminal action, provided, that in junctioas and n chmens may be is sued asd served That whenever any thing of Becula1, nature other thna a work of usceskity or cGarity, is pro yided uT agreed tt, tbe d0ae on a day named or within timeulamed, and the day or inc last day thereof fails on a holiday it may elpsrformed or the nex1 business day, with like ef- feet, as though performed on the ap- pointed day.
 Neither tie acting governor, hor the governor, nor the president of the Unrted States, has tbfe power to make any day he .ctroses a legal Eloliday. It is a matter ,entiSely for u legisla- tive assembly ssO determine. This was forcefully brought to attentc
 legislature last winter, in it's first act, making the Teth of February, 1909, hncoln's birthday, a legal holiday. Governor KIDbey did not presume 70 issue such proclamation, However much he may haze desired the 1OOtn anniversary of the birthday rof Abra- bam Lincoln to be observed through sult the territory.
 1t is more than likely that the act ing governor got his hands on the old statute of 1877, which provides eafter naming the holidays) that every day appointed by the president of the Un- tied States, or by the governor of 1his territory for public fast, Thangsgiving or a aiholiday," shall be a legsa holiday But rslis provision was repealed by ,tke Revised Statutes of 1901, and since that fkme the Governor has been with out power to appoint any day as a holiday
 The Eaming of half day as half holiday Is certainly an innovauon, as illegal computation of time there are fractions of a day, and the day on which an act is done or an event hap pens must be entirely included or ex- eludeG.
 It is probably not out of place to say that the acting governor ought to sustain more cordial relations with the attorney general.