Sunday was a dies non "and a power that may be exercised up to and including a given day of the month may generally, when that day happens to be Sunday, be exercised on the succeeding day."

There is a contrariety of views whether an act which by statute is required to be done within a stated period may be done a day later when the last day of the period falls on Sunday

It may be stated as a general rule that where a power may be exercised up to and including a certain day of the month and that day is Sunday, it may be exercised on the following Monday.

Not being in any sense a penal statute, the act should be liberally construed to promote its purpose, and it is of first importance that that purpose shall not be frustrated by unnecessarily placing technical limitations upon the agencies which are to carry it into effect.

—statute "was not intended to have,...[and] could not have,... any effect on the power of a subsequent Congress" to enact a different policy

Government may withdraw- "In the absence of express limitation the Government may always withdraw charges which it has made

—the Supreme Court held that an executive action taken one day outside of the Congressionally mandated time frame for the officer to act was legal in part because the last day was a Sunday.

Far from recognizing any "general understanding" regarding the performance of a legal act on a weekend, Slip Op. at 7-8, the Supreme Court grounded its holding in the purpose of the statute and the special nature of Sunday as a holiday or a dies non.

The principle of legislative ratification of unauthorized executive acts has been recognized in several other cases.

The axiom that one Congress cannot bind a subsequent Congress is a well-established principle of American jurisprudence.

[CITATION] In re Holmes