Proclamation No. 651, s. 1960

MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 651, February 25, 1960 ]

DECLARING WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1960, AS A SPECIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF CABATUAN, PROVINCE OF ILOILO

Whereas, the sixty-ninth birthday of the late Tomas Confesor, one of our most outstanding resistance leaders during the last war, falls on Wednesday, March 2, 1960; and

Whereas, the people of Cabatuan, his birthplace, desire that they be given full opportunity to celebrate his birthday 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 2, 1960, as a special public holiday in the municipality of Cabatuan, province of Iloilo.

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 25th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fourteenth.

CARLOS P. GARCIA
President of the Philippines

By the President:

NATALIO P. CASTILLO
Executive Secretary