Proclamation No. 139, s. 1937

MALACAÑANG PALACE
Manila

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

Proclamation No. 139

DECLARING SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1937, A PUBLIC HOLIDAY

Whereas, a petition has been received from the Associated Banks of Manila, asking that the twenty-seventh day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, be declared a public holiday; and

Whereas, the banking houses signing said petition have agreed that negotiable papers which would be payable on the twenty-seventh day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, if the same were not a holiday, shall not be protested until sunset of March twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and that they will receive moneys from the business community on said twenty-seventh day of March for safekeeping, provided that such moneys shall not be taken up on the banks’ account until the twenty-ninth day of March; and it appearing to the President that the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth days of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, are public holidays, and that said twenty-seventh day of March can be declared a public holiday to the great advantage of the banking and importing and exporting houses, and of the public in general;

Now, therefore, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the authority in me vested by section twenty-eight of the Administrative Code, and there being in my judgment sufficient reasons therefore, do hereby proclaim Saturday, March twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, as a 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 Washington, D. C., U. S. A., this ninth day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the second.

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(Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO
Secretary of the Interior