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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 775, August 30, 1961 ]

DECLARING THE FIRST DAY OF SEPTEMBER OF EVERY YEAR AS SOCIAL SECURITY DAY

WHEREAS, the Social Security System commenced full operations on September 1, 1957; and

WHEREAS, it is advisable to commemorate this event which marked the start of new measures for the economic security and well-being of the Filipino workingman;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Carlos P. Garcia, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare the first day of September of every year as Social Security Day.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal 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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