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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 651-a, February 26, 1960 ]

DECLARING MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1960, AS SPECIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY FOR THE PROVINCE OF ILOCOS SUR

WHEREAS, the anniversary of the death of Elpidio Quirino, former President of the Philippines, falls on February 29,1960;

WHEREAS, the people of Ilocos Sur requested that they be afforded full opportunity to commemorate the event with appropriate ceremonies;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Carlos P. Garcia, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 30 of the Revised Administrative Code, do hereby declare Monday, February 29, 1960, as special public holiday in the province of Ilocos Sur.

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 26th day of February, in the year Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fourteenth.

CARLOS P. GARCIA
President of the Philippines

By the President:

NATALIO P. CASTILLO
Executive Secretary

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