Proclamation No. 28, s. 1945

MALACANAN PALACE MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES “PROCLAMATION NO.29

ESIGNATING THE PERIOD FROM DECEMBER FIFTEEN, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIVE TO JANUARY THIRTY-ONE, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIX, AS. THE PERIOD FOR THE JOINT FINANCIAL CAMPATGN OF THE BOY SCOUTS AND GIRL SCOUTS OF THE PHILIPPINES.

WHEREAS, the untiring efforts and effective leadership which the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of the Philippines con- tributed in the character development and citizenship train- ing of the Filipino youth since their creation as public

• corporations under Commonwealth Acts Nos, 111 and 542, as -well as the patriotic services which said organizations ren- dered to the country during the whole course of the Pacific “War, which broke out on December 8, 1941, have won for them the good esteem, and merited the generous support of, the pation;

WHEREAS, in recognition and appreciation of the valuable assistance which the Boy Scout and Girl Scout organizations contribute to the State in the fulfillment of its constitu- tional duty to promote the happiness and well-being of the youth of the land, it behooves the Government to help these organizations in any enterprise that they may undertake to advance their cause; and

WHEREAS, these organizations néed financial aid with whieh to secure adequate administrative offices, facilities, supplies and equipment as replacements for those which were destroyed or otherwise lost on account of the war aforemen- tioned, and to carry through their respective programs of activities laid out in accordance with their avowed aims and purposes;

NOW, THSREFORE, I, SERGIO OSMBNA, President of the Phil- ippines, do hereby designate and set aside the period from December 15, 1945, to January 31, 1946, as a special one for the conduct of the Joint Financial Campaign of the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of the Philippines, to raise the funds neces- sary for the purposes above-mentioned. Further, I call upon all citizens end residents of the Philippines in every sec- tion of the country and in every walk of life to assist in

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this campaign and to give their special and general sup-

port so that these organizations may be assured of ade-

• quate funds with which to prosecute their work for the welfare of the youths throughout the country,

IN WETNESS WHERHOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Commonwealth of the Philippines to be affixed, ; Done at the City of Manila, this 5th day of December,

in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-five, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the eleventh,

SERGIO OSMENA President of the Philippines

By the President:

Secretary to the ‘President