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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 801, December 23, 1941 ]

CALLING THE CONGRESS OF THE PHILIPPINES IN SPECIAL SESSION

WHEREAS, the public interest requires that the Congress of the Philippines be convened in special session to adopt such measures as may be necessary to meet the existing emergency ;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, MANUEL L. QUEZON, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby call the Congress of the Philippines in special session commencing on the 30th day of December, nineteen hundred and forty-one, at four o’clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of considering such measures as may be submitted from time to time by the President.

All persons entitled to act as members of the Congress of the Philippines are required to take notice of this Proclamation.1aшphi1

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 23rd day of December, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-one, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the seventh.

(Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON

By the President:

(Sgd.) JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President

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