I, CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN, 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 24, 2000, 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 24, 2000.

GIVEN, under my hand and seal
this 16th day of November in the
Year of Our Lord, Two Thousand,
and of the Independence of the
United States, the Two Hundred
and Twenty-Fifth.

/s/ Christine Todd Whitman
Governor

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Attest:
/s/ Robert E. Fabricant
Chief Counsel to the Governor