MALACAÑAN PALACE
Manila

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

Proclamation No. 70

CALLING FOR SPECIAL ELECTIONS TO FILL EXISTING VACANCIES IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

Whereas the National Assembly on July fifteenth, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, has certified that the following vacancies exist in the membership of said body:

Second District of Ilocos Norte

Fourth District of Leyte

District of Abra

Second District of Samar

Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority conferred upon me by Commonwealth Act Numbered Twenty-one, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, hereby issue this proclamation and call a special election to take place on Tuesday, the first day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, in the following districts of the provinces in the Philippines, for the purpose of electing the members who are to fill the existing vacancies in the National Assembly, to wit:

Second District of Ilocos Norte

Fourth District of Leyte

District of Abra

Second District of Samar

In pursuance of said Commonwealth Act Numbered Twenty-one, the inspectors of election in said districts shall meet on August seventeenth, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, for the purpose of revising the electoral census of their respective precincts and allowing the registration of new voters; all proceedings for the inclusion or exclusion of voters shall be given preference by the corresponding courts and terminated not later than the twenty-fourth day of August, nineteen hundred and thirty-six; and the inspectors of election shall hold their last and final meeting for the purposes of section four hundred thirty-six; and the inspectors of election shall hold their last and final meeting for the purposes of section four hundred thirty-nine of the Election Law on Thursday, August twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and thirty-six. In all other respects, the provisions of the General Election Law shall be followed in the conduct of the special elections herein called.

Pursuant to the provisions of section thirty of the Revised Administrative Code, and in order to permit the free access of duly qualified voters to the polls, I hereby declare Tuesday, September first, 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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