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MALACAÑANG
Manila

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

Proclamation No. 126

PROVIDING FOR THE DISPLAY OF THE NATIONAL FLAG OF THE PHILIPPINES AT HALF MAST ON THE OCCASION OF THE DEATH OF MRS. AURORA ARAGON QUEZON.

WHEREAS, on the twenty-eighth day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, Mrs. Aurora Aragon Quezon, widow of the late President Manuel Quezon, together with close relatives and friends, met a tragic death on the road between Boñgabon, Nueva Ecija, and Baler, Quezon Province; and

WHEREAS, the death, of Mrs. Aurora Aragon Quezon is an irreparable loss to her family and to the Filipino people to whose welfare she dedicated her life fully with utmost zeal and devotion;

NOW, THEREFORE, in token of loving remembrance of the late Mrs. Aurora Aragon Quezon, and as an expression of bereavement by our people for the untimely and immeasurable loss, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order that the national flag of the Philippines shall be displayed at half mast on all public buildings and installations during the period from April 29 to May 7 of this year.

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 29th day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the third.

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:

TEODORO EVANGELISTA
Executive Secretary

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