MALACAÑANG PALACE
Manila
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
Proclamation No. 473
CALLING THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY IN SPECIAL SESSION
Whereas, in pursuance of the Constitution of the Philippines and of Commonwealth Act Numbered Four hundred ninety-two, amendments to the Ordinance appended to the said Constitution proposed by the National Assembly in its Resolution Numbered Thirty-nine, adopted September fifteenth, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, were submitted to the Filipino people for approval or disapproval on the twenty-fourth day of October, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine;
Whereas a formal request has been made by the Speaker of the National Assembly that a special session of the Assembly be called for the purpose of canvassing the returns and certifying the results of the election so held on October twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine; and
Whereas the public interest requires that the returns of the election be canvassed and the results thereof be certified as early as possible;
Now, therefore, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the power vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby call the National Assembly in special session in the City of Manila on the second day of November, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, at four o’clock in the afternoon, to receive and canvass the returns and certify the results of the election held on October twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and to consider the enactment of legislation as a consequence of said election and such other matters as may be submitted from time to time by the President.
All persons entitled to act as members of the Second National Assembly are required to take notice of this proclamation.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Commonwealth of the Philippines to be affixed.
Done at the City of Manila, this twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the fourth.
MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines
By the President:
JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President
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