Executive Order 8291—Excusing Federal Employees From Duty on December 23 and 30, 1939
By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:
1. The several Executive departments, independent establishments, and other governmental agencies in the District of Columbia, including the Government Printing Office and the Navy Yard and Naval Stations, shall be closed all day on Saturday, December 23, 1939, and all day on Saturday, December 30, 1939; and all employees in the Federal service in the District of Columbia, and in the field service of the Executive departments, independent establishments, and other agencies of the Government, except those who may for special public reasons be excluded from the provisions of this order by the heads of their respective departments, establishments, or agencies, or those whose absence from duty would be inconsistent with the provisions of existing law, shall be excused from duty on those days.
2. This order shall be published in the Federal Register.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The White House,
November 30, 1939.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 8291—Excusing Federal Employees From Duty on December 23 and 30, 1939 Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371900