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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 553, January 14, 1959 ]

DECLARING TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1959, AS A SPECIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY IN ALL MUNICIPALITIES AND MUNICIPAL DISTRICTS THROUGHOUT THE PHILIPPINES

WHEREAS, the election of barrio councils under Republic Act No. 1408 will take place on January 20, l959;

WHEREAS, to give meaning to the Administration’s policy on local autonomy, it is necessary that the barrio people be given full opportunity to participate in the elections;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, CARLOS P. GARCIA, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in; me by section 30 of the Revised Administrative Code, do hereby declare Tuesday, January 20, 1959, as special public holiday in all municipalities and municipal districts throughout the Philippines.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.1aшphi1

Done in the City of Manila, this 14th day of January, in; the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the thirteenth.

CARLOS P. GARCIA
President of the Philippines

By the President:

JUAN C. PAJO
Executive Secretary

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