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By Mr. Tynan of Boston, petition of the Massachusetts State CIO Industrial
Union Council that the laws relative to the observance of the Lord’s Day be made
applicable to certain holidays. Constitutional Law.
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Clje Commontoealtf) of
Massachusetts
In the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-Eight.
An Act
providing that all
laws, statutes, orders, decrees,
RULES AND REGULATIONS REGULATING THE OBSERVANCE OF THE
LORD’S
THE
DAY BE
APPLICABLE TO FEBRUARY TWENTY-SECOND AND
FIRST MONDAY OF SEPTEMBER.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Clause Eighteenth of section 7of chapter 4of the General
1
2 Laws is hereby amended by striking out the first sentence, as
3 amended, and inserting in place thereof the following
sentence:
4 “Legal holiday” shall include January first, February twenty-
i
-5 second, April nineteenth, May thirtieth, July fourth, the first
6 Monday of September, October twelfth, November eleventh,
7 Thanksgiving day and Chr stmas day, or the day following
8 when any of the five day first mentioned, October twelfth,
9 November eleventh, or Chr itmas day occurs on Sunday; and
10 the public offices shall be dosed on all of said days; and all
11 laws, statutes, orders, decre 3s, rules and regulations regulating
observance of the Lord’ day shall be applicable to February
£l213 the
twenty-second and the first Monday of September, and to Ma
14 thirtieth and November eleventh between the hours of seven
15 o’clock antemeridian and one o’clock postmeridian, or during
16 the same hours on the day following when May thirtieth or
17 November eleventh occurs on Sunday, except that on May
18 thirtieth, or on the day following when May thirtieth occurs on
19 Sunday, florist shops may be kept open all of said day, and
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20 except that on November eleventh, or on the day following
21 when November eleventh occurs on Sunday, hunting during said
22 hours, if otherwise lawful, shall not be prohibited; and all laws,
23 statutes, orders, decrees, rules and regulations regulating the
1 keeping open of retail stores on the Lord’s day shall be applicable
25 to the keeping open of retail stores on October twelfth between
26 the hours of seven o’clock antemeridian and one O
o’clock
CIOCK posti
me hours on the day following when a
27 meridian, or d
Sunday. “Legal holiday” shall also w
October twelfth occurs on Sunday.
29 include, with respect to Suffolk county only, March seventeenth
seve
10
10 and
and June
June seventeenth,
or the day following when M
n June seventeenth occurs on Sunday, and the public
32
of the cities of
of Boston,
32 offices of
Boston, Chelsea and Revere, the town of
33 Winthrop and the county of Suffolk shall be closed on said
34 March seventeenth or the day blowing when March seventeenth
35 occurs on Sunday, and the p ■lie offices in said county shall be
36 closed on said June seventeenth or the day following when June
legal
37 seventeenth occurs on Sunday; provided, that the words “lega
holiday” as used in section forty-five of chapter one hundred and
used in chapter one
39 forty-nine, and the word “holiday
40 hundred and seven, shall not include March seventeenth or
41 the day following when March seventeenth occurs on Sunday.