Proclamation No. 512 Series of 1940




MALACAÑANG PALACE Manila BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES Proclamation No. 512 DECLARING SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1940, A SPECIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY A petition has been received from and on behalf of the associated banks in Manila, requesting that the twenty-third day of March, nineteen hundred and forty, be declared an official holiday. The banking houses have agreed that negotiable papers which would fall due on the twenty-third day of March, nineteen hundred and forty, if the same were not a holiday, shall not be protested until the sunset of the following Monday, March twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and forty. It appearing to the Chief Executive that, inasmuch as the twenty-first and twenty-second days of March, nineteen hundred and forty, are public holidays, the twenty-third day of March, nineteen hundred and forty, can be declared a special public holiday to the great advantage of the banking houses and no disadvantage will result to the public in general; Now, therefore, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the authority in me vested by section thirty of the Revised Administrative Code, and there being in my judgment sufficient reasons therefor, do hereby proclaim Saturday, March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and forty, as a special public holiday. 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 first day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the fifth. MANUEL L. QUEZON President of the Philippines By the President: JORGE B. VARGAS Secretary to the President The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation