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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 774, August 30, 1961 ]

DECLARING THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1961, AS A SPECIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY IN THE PROVINCE OF ZAMBALES

WHEREAS, the fifty-fourth birthday of our beloved Ramon Magsaysay, late President of the Philippines, falls on August 31, 1961;

WHEREAS, in the few years that God gave him to serve our people, President Magsaysay made himself a true brother and earnest defender of the common man, dedicated himself to his official tasks with an exemplary zeal, and did everything he could for the glorious future of our Republic;

WHEREAS, it is but fitting that at least the people of his birthplace be afforded full opportunity to celebrate his birthday with appropriate ceremonies;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Carlos P. Garcia, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 30 of the Revised Administrative Code, do hereby declare Thursday, August 31, 1961, as a special public holiday in the province of Zambales.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the zeal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.1aшphi1

Done in the City of Manila, this 30th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-one, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the sixteenth.

CARLOS P. GARCIA
President of the Philippines

By the President:

NATALIO P. CASTILLO
Executive Secretary

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