Proclamation No. 565, s. 1959

MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 565, March 18, 1959 ]

DECLARING WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1959, AS A SPECIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY IN THE PROVINCES OF ILOILO, CAPIZ, AKLAN, AND ANTIQUE AND IN THE CITIES OF ILOILO AND ROXAS

WHEREAS, the fourteenth anniversary of the liberation of the Island of Panay from the Imperial Japanese Forces falls on March 18, 1959;

WHEREAS, the people of the Island of Panay desire that they be given full opportunity to celebrate the event with appropriate ceremonies;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, CARLOS P. GARCIA, President of the Philippines, pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 30 of the Revised Administrative Code, do hereby declare Wednesday, March 18, 1959, as a special public holiday in the provinces of Iloilo, Capiz, Aklan, and Antique and in the cities of Iloilo and Roxas,

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 18th day of March, 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