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 406 FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ons. 6, 7. 1892. half-holiday Saturday, shall be deemed to be, and shall be, payable on P¤>’*°¤°¤· the next succeeding secular or business day: And pro vided further, That for the purpose of protesting or otherwise holding liable any party to any bill of exchange, bank check, draft, or promissory note which shall not have been paid before twelve o’clock at noon on any half-holiday Saturday, a demand of acceptance or payment thereof may be made, and notice of protest or dishonor thereof may be given on the next succeed- • Cvllecticns. ing secular or business day: And providedfurther, That when any person shall receive for collection in said city of Washington any bill of exchange, bank check, or promissory note due and presentable for acceptance or payment on any haliiholiday Saturday, such person shall not be deemed guilty of neglect or omission of duty, nor incur any liability in not presenting for payment or acceptance or collecting such bill of exchange, bank check, draft, or promissory note on that day. Nothing in this section shall affect any legislation applicable to uguhoudays. any Saturday whenever the same, under the provision of said section, shall be a legal holiday. Sec. 2. That this act shall take etfect from the date of its passage. Approved, December 22, 1892. December 22, 1892. CHAP. 7.-An act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to reconvey to Lucius ————··—·-· U. Maltby and Louise W. Maltby, his wife, Margaret Elizabeth Lucas, and the Sea Girt Land Improvement Company a piece of land selected as a site for the Squan mp: light station, New Jersey, but found to be unsuitable for the purpose of said 0D. mmm Whereas on December tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, Lucius U. Maltby and Louise, his wife, of Philadelphia, in the State Pennsylvania, by their deed duly executed, conveyed to the United States for the consideration of one thousand five hundred dollars all their right, title, and interest in and to a certain lot of land situate at Sea Girt, in the township of Wall, in the county of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, selected as a site for the proposed light station at Squan Inlet, New Jersey, authorized by the act making appropriations for the _ ver 25.r·•¤- sundry civil expenses for the Government approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine; and Whereas on February twentyfifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, Margaret Elizabeth Lucas, of the same place, for a like consideration, by her deed duly executed, conveyed to the United States, for the purpose (aforesaid, all her right, title, and interest in the same lot of n ; an Whereas on December tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, the Sea Girt Land Improvement Company, a corporation duly chartered in compliance with the laws of the State of New Jersey, for the consideration of one dollar, by their deed duly executed, conveyed to the United States for the purposes aforesaid all their right, title, and interest in the same lot of land; and Whereas the considerations named in said deeds have never been paid, the lot of land conveyed having been found unsuitable for the site of the proposed light station; and Whereas the three deeds above named have been duly recorded in the clerk’s office of Monmouth County, on May eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, all in book four hundred and eighty-three of deeds, the first on pages one hundred and seventeen, and so forth, the second on pages one hundred and twenty-three, and so forth, and the third on pages one hundred and twenty, and so forth; and Whereas the grantors in these deeds have consented to convey to the United States a lot of land suitable for the site of the propo ed light station: Therefore,