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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 627, November 6, 1959 ]

DECLARING A PERIOD OF NATIONAL MOURNING OVER THE DEATH OF DR. JOSE P. LAUREL

WHEREAS, the death today of Dr. Jose P. Laurel, a great patriot, eminent jurist, statesman, legislator, and constitutionalist, is a great loss to our people and has caused deep sorrow among them;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, CARLOS P. GARCIA, President of the Philippines, do hereby proclaim the period from today to the day of his burial as a period of national mourning. During this period, flags of all government buildings and installations throughout the Philippines shall be flown at half-mast.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.1aшphi1

Done in the City of Manila, this 6th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fourteenth.

CARLOS P. GARCIA
President of the Philippines

By the President:

ENRIQUE C. QUEMA
Assistant Executive Secretary

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