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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 1696, December 7, 1977 ]

DECLARING FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1977, AS A SPECIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY

WHEREAS, pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 1229, a national referendum will be conducted on December 17, 1977, to decide as to whether the President shall continue in office as incumbent President and be prime minister after the organization of the Interim Batasang Pambansa as provided in amendment No. 3 of the 1976 amendments to the Constitution; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to the principle of the participatory democracy the people should be given the fullest opportunity to take part in this referendum;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare Friday, December 16, 1977, as a special public holiday.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 7th day of December, 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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