MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
[ Proclamation No. 592, June 2, 1959 ]
DECLARING JULY 4, 1959, AS THE FORMAL INAUGURATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE TWO NEW PROVINCES OF LANAO DEL NORTE AND LANAO DEL SUR
WHEREAS, Republic Act No. 2228, approved on May 22, 1959, created the provinces of Lanao del Norte and Lanao del Sur;
WHEREAS, Section 10 of the said Act provides that the two new provinces of Lanao del Norte and Lanao del Sur shall be considered to have been formally established upon proclamation by the President of the Philippines.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, CARLOS P. GARCIA, President of the Philippines, pursuant to the provisions of said Section 10 of Republic Act No. 2228, do hereby proclaim that the formal establishment and inauguration of the Provinces of Lanao del Norte and Lanao del Sur shall take place on July 4, 1959.
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 2nd day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the thirteenth.
CARLOS P. GARCIA
President of the Philippines
By the President:
JUAN C. PAJO
Executive Secretary
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