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[ PROCLAMATION NO. 81, July 15, 1948 ]
EXTENDING THE PERIOD FIXED IN THE AMNESTY PROCLAMATION FOR THE LEADERS AND MEMBERS OF THE HUKBALAHAP AND PAMBANSANG KAISAHAN NG MGA MAGBUBUKID (PKM).
WHEREAS, the Congress of the Philippines, concurring in Proclamation No. 76, dated June 21, 1948, which grants amnesty to the leaders and members of the Hukbalahap and the Pambansang Kaisahan ng mga Magbubukid (PKM), authorizes and consents to the extension by the President of the Philippines for not exceeding one month when said body is not in session of the period of twenty days therein provided; and
WHEREAS, in view of the difficulties of communication and transportation, many of those connected with the Hukbalahap and Pambansang Kaisahan ng mga Magbubukid (PKM) have not been duly apprised of said amnesty proclamation as well as the procedure to be observed in carrying out the terms thereof;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the authority vested in me by Concurrent Resolution No. 39 of the Congress of the Philippines, dated June 25, 1948, do hereby extend up to and including the thirty-first day of July, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, the period fixed in the Amnesty Proclamation for the leaders and members of the Hukbalahap and Pambansang Kaisahan ng mga Magbubukid (PKM).
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.
Done in the City of Manila, this 15th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and of the Independence of the Philippines, tne third.
ELPIDIO QURINO
President of the Philippines
By the President:
EMILIO ABELLO
Executive Secretary