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Winittt} States Circuit Court

of appeals

jfor tfje Jttnt) Circuit

PETER KERR, THOMAS KERR and ANDREW KERR,

co-partners, doing business under the firm name

and style of KERR-GIFFORD & CO.,

Appellants and Respondents^

    1. SCHWANER, as Master of the S. S. "TIBERIUS,"

of Hamburg, Germany,

Appellee and Lihellant.

9ippellants '3eplp Brief

We do not care to discuss appellee's statement that

"The court knows judicially that there are actual holidays

in Oregon," nor to comment on "sham holidays," nor "com-

pulsory," "technical," "constructive," or "paper holidays,"

except to remark in passing that this charter-party must

be construed in accordance with the laws of Oregon.

Balfour v. Wilkins, 5 Sawyer, 429.

In accordance with the laws of Oregon there are no

days, holidays or otherwise, upon which it is unlawful to

labor. The laws of Oregon, B. & C. Comp., sections 3918-

19, make the days appointed by the governor as holidays

of equal sanctity and force as Sunday, January the First,


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