further, That in construing this section every Saturday designated a half holiday shall, until twelve o'clock noon, be deemed a secular or business day; and the days and half holidays aforesaid, so designated as holidays and half holidays, shall be considered as public holidays and half holidays for all purposes whatsoever as regards the transaction of business: And provided further, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent or invalidate the entry, issuance, service or execution of any writ, summons, confession of judgment, or other legal process whatever on any of the holidays or half holidays herein designated as holidays, nor to prevent any bank from keeping its doors open or transacting its business on any of the said Saturday afternoons if, by a vote of its directors, it shall elect to do so.

Section 2. Whenever the first day of January, the twelfth day of February, the twenty-second day of February, the thirtieth day of May, the Fourth day of July, or the twenty-fifth day of December, shall any of them occur on Sunday, the following day, Monday, shall be deemed and declared a public holiday. All bills of exchange, checks, drafts or promissory notes falling due on any of the Mondays so observed as holidays, shall be due and payable on the next succeeding secular or business day, and all Mondays so observed as holidays, shall, for all purposes whatever as regards the presenting for payment or acceptance, and as regards the protesting and giving notice of the dishonor of bills of exchange, checks, drafts and promissory notes made after the passage of this act, be treated and considered as if the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday.

Section 3. All bills of exchange, checks, drafts and promissory notes made after the passage of this act, which by the terms thereof shall be payable on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, shall be deemed to be and shall be payable on the next succeeding secular or business day.

Section 4. That all the days and half days herein designated as legal holidays shall be regarded as secular or business days for all other purposes than those mentioned in this act.

Approved-The 23d day of June, A. D. 1897.

DANIEL H. HASTINGS.

From Soldiers' Home, permanent fund,

From deposits for surveying public lands,

From sales of ordnance material,

From sales of lands and buildings,

From part payment Central Pacific Railroad indebtedness,
From postal service,

Total receipts,

$273,437,161 51

206,128,481 75

6,164,256 24

4,016, 531 57

1,116,911 34

2,805,435 35

1,912,411 25

1,678,246 81

1,476,175 00

1,343,563 88

988,058 28

828,584 74

668,072 09

441,246 70

393,439 21

274,887 37

157,671 50

128,238 70

87,838 23

82,338 42

32,756 10

11,798,314 14

95,021,384 17

$610,982,004 35

EXPENDITURES.

For the civil establishment, including foreign intercourse, public build-
ings, collecting the revenues, District of Columbia, and other miscel-
laneous expenses,

For the military establishment, including rivers and harbors, forts,
arsenals, sea-coast defenses and expenses of the Spanish war,
For the naval establishment, including construction of new vessels, ma-
chinery, armament, equipment, improvement at navy-yards, and ex-
penses of the Spanish war,

*Includes $1,543,145 held in treasury as cash.