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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 779, September 5, 1961 ]

DECLARING TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1961, AS LAW DAY

WHEREAS, the administration of justice is indispensable to a sound and vigorous democracy;

WHEREAS, lawyers play a vital role in the administration of justice; and

WHEREAS, it is but fitting that such an important role of lawyers be brought to the attention of our people;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Carlos P. Garcia, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare Tuesday, September 19, 1961, as Law Day. I urge the various bar and lawyers’ associations to celebrate the day with appropriate programs.1aшphi1

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 5th day of September, 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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