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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 658, March 15, 1960 ]

DECLARING FRIDAY, MARCH 18,1960, AS A SPECIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY IN THE PROVINCES OF ILOILO, CAPIZ, AKLAN, AND ANTIQUE AND IN THE CITIES OF ILOILO AND ROXAS

WHEREAS, the fifteenth anniversary of the liberation of the Island of Panay from the Imperial Japanese Forces falls on March 18, 1960;

WHEREAS, the people of the Island of Panay desire that they be given full opportunity to celebrate the event with appropriate ceremonies;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Carlos P. Garcia, President of the Philippines, pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 30 of the Revised Administrative Code, do hereby declare Friday, March 18, 1960, as a special public holiday in the provinces of Iloilo, Capiz, Aklan, and Antique and in the cities of Iloilo and Roxas.

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 15th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fourteenth.

CARLOS P. GARCIA
President of the Philippines

By the President:

NATALIO P. CASTILLO
Executive Secretary

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