Proclamation No. 800, s. 1961

MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 800, October 27, 1961 ]

DECLARING WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1961, AS A SPECIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY

WHEREAS, paying homage to the dead on All Saints’ Day is one of our cherished traditions; and

WHEREAS, in keeping with that tradition, the people should be given full opportunity to observe the day with all its religious fervor;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Carlos P. Garcia, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested n me by section 30 of the Revised Administrative Code, do hereby declare Wednesday, November 1, 1961, 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 27th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-one, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the sixteenth.

CARLOS P. GARCIA
President of the Philippines

By the President:

EDILBERTO B. GALLARES
Assistant Executive Secretary