Proclamation No. 667, s. 2019

MALACANAN PALACE MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES PROCLAMATION NO. 667

DECLARING MONDAY, 18 FEBRUARY 2019, A SPECIAL (NON-WORKING) DAY IN THE CITY OF BAYAWAN, PROVINCE OF NEGROS ORIENTAL

WHEREAS, the City of Bayawan, Province of Negros Oriental, will celebrate the Tawo-Tawo Festival on the fourth week of February;

WHEREAS, the Tawo-Tawo Festival reflects the culture of the City of Bayawan being a rice granary of the southern part of the Province of Negros Oriental;

WHEREAS, to enable the people of the City of Bayawan to celebrate and participate in the occasion, the Sangguniang Panlungsod of Bayawan requested that Monday, 18 February 2019, be declared a special (non-working) day, in celebration of the Tawo-Tawo Festival; and

WHEREAS, it is but fitting and proper that the people of the City of Bayawan be given full opportunity to celebrate and participate in the occasion with appropriate ceremonies;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, SALVADOR C. MEDIALDEA, Executive Secretary, by authority of the President, RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE, do hereby declare Monday, 18 February 2019, a special (non-working) day in the City of Bayawan, Province of Negros Oriental.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, | 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 7th dayof February, in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Nineteen.

By authority of the President:

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