Proclamation No. 859, s. 1971

MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 859, May 29, 1971 ]

DECLARING TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1971, AS a SPECIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY.

WHEREAS, Tuesday, June 1, 1971, marks the opening of the 1971 Constitutional Convention; and

WHEREAS, the people should be given the opportunity to ponder upon the importance of the historic undertaking and to think out and propose to their respective delegates much-needed reforms in the social, economic and political structure;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby declare Tuesday, June 1, 1971, 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 29th day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-one.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Executive Assistant