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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 696, March 27, 1941 ]

DECLARING THE TWELFTH DAY OF APRIL, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-ONE, A SPECIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY

A petition has been received from and on behalf of the associated banks in Manila, requesting that the twelfth day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-one, be declared an official holiday. The banking houses have agreed that negotiable papers which would fall due on the twelfth day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-one, if the same were not a holiday, shall not he protested until the sunset of the following Monday, April fourteenth, nineteen hundred and forty-one.

It appearing to the Chief Executive that, inasmuch as the tenth and eleventh days of April, nineteen hundred and forty-one, are public holidays, the twelfth day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-one, 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 of section thirty of the Revised Administrate Code, and there being in my judgment sufficient reason therefor, do hereby proclaim Saturday, April twelfth, nineteen forty-one, as a special public holiday.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my caused the seal of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, to be affixed.1aшphi1

Done at the City of Manila, this twenty seventh day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-one, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the sixth.

MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines

By the President:

JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President

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