Proclamation No. 747, s. 1961

MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 747, April 26, 1961 ]

DECLARING APRIL 30, 1961, AS WOMEN’S RIGHTS DAY

In order that our people may know and appreciate the important role played by women in the economic, social, and political progress of the nation, I, Carlos P. Garcia, President of the Philippines, by virture of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare April 30, 1961, as Women’s Rights Day.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and cause the seal of the republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 26th day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-one, and of independent of the Philippines, the fifteenth.

CARLOS P. GARCIA
President of the Philippines

By the President:

NATALIO P. CASTILLO
Executive Secretary