I, DONALD T. DIFRANCESCO, Acting Governor of the State of New Jersey, by
virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and by the Statutes of this State,
do hereby ORDER and DIRECT:

1. November 23, 2001, the day following Thanksgiving, shall be granted as a day off to
employees who work in the Executive Departments of State Government and who are
paid from State funds or from federal funds made available to the State, whose functions,
in the, opinion of their appointing authority, permit such absence.

2. An alternate day shall be granted to the aforementioned category of employees whose
functions, in the opinion of their appointing authority, precludes such absence on
November 23, 2001.

GIVEN, under my hand and seal this 15th
day of November in the Year of Our
Lord, Two Thousand and One, and of the
Independence of the United States, the
Two Hundred and Twenty-Sixth.

/s/ Donald T. DiFrancesco
Acting Governor

[seal)
Attest:
/s/ James A. Harkness
Chief Counsel to the Governor