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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 613, August 28, 1959 ]

DECLARING MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1959, AS A SPECIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY IN THE PROVINCE OF ZAMBALES

WHEREAS, the fifty-second birthday of our beloved Ramon Magsaysay, late President of the Philippines, falls on August 31, 1959;

WHEREAS, in the few years that God gave him to serve our people, President Magsaysay made himself a true brother and earnest defender of the common man, dedicated himself to his official tasks with an exemplary zeal, and did everything he could for the glorious future of our Republic;

WHEREAS, it is but fitting that at least the people of his birthplace be afforded full opportunity to celebrate his birthday with appropriate ceremonies;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, CARLOS P. GARCIA, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 30 of the Revised Administrative Code, do hereby declare Monday, August 31, 1959, as a special public holiday in the Province of Zambales.1aшphi1

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

Done in the City of Manila, this 28th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fourteenth.

CARLOS P. GARCIA
President of the Philippines

By the President:

JUAN C. PAJO
Executive Secretary

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