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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 301, August 23, 1964 ]

DECLARING SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1964, A SPECIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY IN BARRIO SAN ROQUE, TARLAC, TARLAC

WHEREAS, the birthday of the late Benecio Tobias, one of twenty-four Boy Scouts who perished in an air crash on July 28, 1963, en route to World Boy Scouts Jamboree in Athens, Greece, falls on August 23, 1964; and

WHEREAS, the people of San Roque, Tarlac, Tarlac, his birthplace, should be afforded an opportunity to pay tribute to and to honor their young hero who gave his life to. a worthy cuase;

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 Sunday, August 23, 1964, as a special public holiday in San Roque, Tarlac, Tarlac.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 23rd day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-four.

DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL
President of the Philippines

By the President:

CALIXTO O. ZALDIVAR
Acting Executive Secretary

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