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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ PROCLAMATION NO. 36, June 17, 1954 ]

DECLARING SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1954, AS A SPECIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY

In order to enable our people to celebrate the birthday of our greatest national hero and patriot, Dr. Jose Rizal, with appropriate ceremonies in keeping with his ideals, I, RAMON MAGSAYSAY, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by section 30 of the Revised Administrative Code, do hereby declare Saturday, June 19, 1954, as a special public holiday throughout the Philippines.1âшphi1

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 17th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the Indepedence of the Philippines, the eighth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:

FRED RUIZ CASTRO
Executive Secretary

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