MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
[ Proclamation No. 647, February 16, 1960 ]
DECLARING FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1960, AS A SPECIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY IN PAMPANGA AND TARLAC
WHEREAS, Proclamation. No. 128, dated May 4, 1949, as amended by Proclamation No. 374, dated December, 26, 1956, declared February 19 of every year as Jose Abad Santos Day to honor the memory of the great jurist, patriot, and martyr; and
WHEREAS, the people of Pampanga and Tarlac request that they be given full opportunity to celebrate the hero’s birthday with appropriate ceremonies;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Carlos P. Garcia, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 30 of the Revised Administrative Code, do hereby declare Friday, February 19, 1960, as a special public holiday in the provinces of Pampanga and Tarlac.
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 16th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fourteenth.
CARLOS P. GARCIA
President of the Philippines
By the President:
NATALIO P. CASTILLO
Executive Secretary
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