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MOP, BK 4, v.4,5,6, 270

[ PROCLAMATION NO. 3-W, September 01, 1944 ]

DECLARING THE FIRST MONDAY OF SEPTEMBER NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR A SPECIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY



WHEREAS the first Monday of September each year, being the day, by legal enactment, celebrated and known as Labor’s Holiday in the United States of America under Title 5, Article 87, United States Code, 1940, ed.; and

WHEREAS it is most appropriate that during this year said day be declared a special public holiday so that Filipinos everywhere may properly pay tribute to the magnificent record of the workingmen of America in this peoples’ war;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Sergio Osmeña, President of the Philippines, in pursuance of the provisions of section thirty of the Revised Administrative Code, do hereby proclaim the first Monday of September, nineteen hundred forty-four, a special 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 Washington, District of Columbia, this first day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-four, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the ninth. [SEAL]

SERGIO OSMEÑA
President of the Philippines


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