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MALACAÑANG
Manila

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

PROCLAMATION No. 136

DECLARING TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2017, AS A SPECIAL (NON-WORKING) DAY IN THE CITY OF OLONGAPO

WHEREAS, the City of Olongapo marks the 100th birth anniversary of its founding father and first mayor, James Leonard T. Gordon, on Tuesday, 17 January 2017;

WHEREAS, Jame Leonard T. Gordon was born to an American father and Filipino mother on 17 January 1917, choose to be a Filipino Citizen, serve his country as a Filipino, focused his days in public service on fighting corruption, and died a Filipino hero;

WHEREAS, it is but fitting and proper that the people of the City of Olongapo be given full opportunity to celebrate and participate in the occasion with appropriate ceremonies;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, SALVADOR C. MEDIALDEA, Executive Secretary, by the authority of the President, RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE, do hereby declare Tuesday, 17 January 2017, as a special (non-working) day in the City Olongapo.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.1âwphi1

Done in the City of Manila, this 16th day of January, in the year of our Lord, Two Thousand and Seventeen

By authority of the President:

SALVADOR C. MEDIALDEA
Executive Secretary

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