MALACAÑANG PALACE
Manila
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
Proclamation No. 140
DECLARING FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1937, A SPECIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY
Whereas, section one, Article V, of the Constitution of the Philippines partly provides that the right of suffrage shall be extended to women if, in a plebiscite which shall be held for that purpose within two years after the adoption of the Constitution, not less than three hundred thousand women possessing the necessary qualification shall vote affirmatively on the question; and
Whereas, in compliance with the above mandate of the Constitution, Commonwealth Act Numbered Thirty-four was enacted, setting Friday, April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, as the date for the holding a plebiscite for the ratification or rejection by the women of the Philippines of the proposed woman suffrage;
Now, therefore, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, pursuant to the provisions of section thirty of the Revised Administrative Code, and upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, do hereby declare Friday, April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, a special holiday throughout the Philippines to give the women of the Philippines all the opportunity and facilities to enable them to express their will upon the question of woman suffrage.
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 Washington, D. C. (for the City of Manila), this twelfth day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the second.
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(Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO
Secretary of the Interior
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