Proclamation No. 71




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ PROCLAMATION NO. 71, June 06, 1948 ] 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 in order to consider urgent legislative measures: NOW, THEREFORE, I, ELPIDIO QUIRINO, 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, for a period of ten days commencing on the 14th day of June, 1948, at 4:00 o’clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of considering bills on social security insurance, capital site, revision of the banking laws, and such other urgent legislation as the President may submit to it.1âшphi1 All persons entitled to sit as members of the Congress of the Philippines are requested to take notice of this proclamation. 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 6th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the second. ELPIDIO QUIRINO President of the Philippines By the President: EMILIO ABELLO Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation