MALACAÑAN PALACE
Manila

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

Proclamation No. 49

DECLARING SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1936, A PUBLIC HOLIDAY

Whereas, a petition has been received from the Associated Bank of Manila, asking that the eleventh day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, be declared a public holiday; and

Whereas, the banking houses singing said petition have agreed that negotiable papers which would be payable on the eleventh day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, if the same were not a holiday, shall not be protested until sunset of April thirteenth, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and that they will received moneys from the business community on said eleventh day of April for safekeeping, provided that such moneys shall not be taken up on the banks’ accounts until the thirteenth day of April; and it appearing to the President that the ninth and tenth days of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, are public holidays, and that said eleventh day of April can be declared a public holiday to the great advantage of the banking and importing and exporting houses, and of the public in general;

Now, therefore, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the authority in me vested by section thirty of the Administrative Code, and there being in my judgment sufficient reasons therefore, do hereby proclaim Saturday, April eleventh, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, as a public holiday.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Commonwealth of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done at the City of Manila, this twenty-fifth day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the first.

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(Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO
Secretary of the Interior


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