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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 1682, October 17, 1977 ]

DECLARING THE KIANGAN WAR MEMORIAL SHRINE IN LINDA, KIANGAN, IFUGAO AS A NATIONAL SHRINE

WHEREAS, the Department of Tourism, through its implementing arm, the Philippine Tourism Authority, has completed the construction of the Kiangan War Memorial Shrine in Linda, Kiangan, Ifugao, to perpetuate the surrender site of the Japanese Imperial Forces, ending almost four years of enemy occupation; and

WHEREAS, the Shrine needs to be maintained and kept for posterity worthy of its status as a national landmark and tourist attraction and a reminder of the uselessness of war as a means of solving international differences;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby declare the Kiangan War Memorial in Linda, Kiangan, Ifugao, as a national shrine, together with the premises, subject to subsequent survey which shall form part of this Proclamation, under the control and administration of the Military War Memorial Division of the Department of National Defense.

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 17th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-seven.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JACOBO C. CLAVE
Presidential Executive Assistant

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