Proclamation No. 394 Series of 1939




MALACAÑANG PALACE Manila BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES Proclamation No. 394 DECLARING SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1930, A SPECIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY A petition has been received from and on behalf of the associated banks in Manila, requesting that the eighth day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, be declared an official holiday. The banking houses have agreed that negotiable papers which would fall due on the eighth day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, if the same were not a holiday, shall not be protested until the sunset of the following Monday, April tenth, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine. It appearing to the Chief Executive that, inasmuch as the sixth and seventh days of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, are public holidays, the eighth day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, can be declared a special public holiday to the great advantage of the banking houses and no disadvantage will result to the public in general; Now, therefore, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the authority in me vested by section thirty of the Revised Administrative Code, and there being in my judgment sufficient reasons therefor, do hereby proclaim Saturday, April eighth, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, as a special public holiday. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Commonwealth of the Philippines to be affixed. Done at the City of Manila, this twenty-ninth day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the fourth. MANUEL L. QUEZON President of the Philippines By the President: JORGE B. VARGAS Secretary to the President The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation