MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

PROCLAMATION NO. 1973

AUTHORIZING MGA LINGKOD BAYAN TO CONDUCT NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL AND FUND CAMPAIGN FOR A PERIOD OF ONE YEAR.

WHEREAS, Mga Lingkod Bayan is a non-profit civic organization with objectives geared towards the development of good and useful citizens and enlightened leaders in accordance with the national development efforts of the New Society; and

WHEREAS, the organization deserves the wholehearted and continuous support of the public to enable it to accomplish its objectives.ℒαwρhi৷

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby authorize Mga Lingkod Bayan to conduct a national educational and fund campaign for a period of one year from the issuance of this proclamation.

I hereby enjoin all citizens and residents of this country to give generously to, and support the laudable projects of, Mga Lingkod Bayan.

All donations and contributions to Mga Lingkod Bayan shall be exempt from income and gift taxes, customs duties and other taxes and the same shall constitute allowable deductions in full from the income of the donors and contributors for income tax purposes.

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 22nd day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty.

(SGD.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD.) JACOBO C. CLAVE
Presidential Executive Assistant


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