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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 792, September 28, 1961 ]

DECLARING MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1961, AS A SPECIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY IN THE PROVINCES OF BATANGAS AND QUEZON

WHEREAS, the first death anniversary of the late Senator Claro M. Recto, President of the Philippine Constitutional Convention, patriot, statesman, jurist, and man of letters, falls on October 2, 1961;

WHEREAS, it is advisable that at least the people of Batangas and Quezon be given full opportunity to observe the event 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 Monday, October 2, 1961, as a special public holiday in the provinces of Batangas and Quezon.

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 28th 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:

EDILBERTO B. GALLARES
Assistant Executive Secretary

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