Executive Order 1076

It is hereby ordered that all offices of the Government, arsenals, navy yards, and stations, and other Government establishments shall, when the 1st day of January, the 22d day of February, the 30th day of May, the 4th day of July, and the 25th day of December, fall on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, be closed to public business on the following Monday and that all employees in the public service, wherever employed, who would be excused from work on the above-named days be excused on the following Monday when said days fall on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, excepting that where a State law fixes for a holiday another day than the Monday following such legal holiday, the Government offices and other Government establishments situated in such States shall close, and employees in the public service shall be excused on that day which is in conformity to State law.

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 * May 22, 1909.