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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ PROCLAMATION NO. 13, February 27, 1962 ]

DECLARING FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1962, AS A SPECIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY IN THE PROVINCE OF BATANGAS AND IN THE CITY OF LIPA

WHEREAS, the seventy-first birthday of the late Jose P. Laurel, patriot, jurist, and statesman, falls on March 9, 1962;

WHEREAS, the people of Batangas desire that they be given full opportunity to celebrate his birthday with appropriate ceremonies;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 30 of the Revised Administrative Code, do hereby declare Friday, March 9, 1962, as a special public holiday in the province of Batangas and in the City of Lipa.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the. Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.1âшphi1

Done in the City of Manila, this 27th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the sixteenth.

DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL
President of the Philippines

By the President:

AMELITO MUTUC
Executive Secretary

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