Proclamation No. 597, s. 1959

MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 597, June 17, 1959 ]

DECLARING FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1959, AS A SPECIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY

WHEREAS, June 19, 1959, marks the ninety-eighth birthday of Jose Rizal, our greatest hero and patriot; and

WHEREAS, it is fitting and proper that the people be given full opportunity to celebrate the day with appropriate ceremonies in keeping with his ideals and teachings;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, CARLOS P. GARCIA, President of the Philippines, by’ virtue of the powers vested in me by section 30 of the Revised Administrative Code, do hereby declare Friday, June 19, 1959, as a special public holiday.

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 17th day of June, 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