Supreme Court E-Library
Information At Your Fingertips


  View printer friendly version



[ PROCLAMATION NO. 209, October 13, 1950 ]

DECLARING FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1950, AS A SPECIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY IN THE PROVINCE OF LEYTE.



WHEREAS, October 20, 1944, is of special significance to the people of Leyte because on that date the United States Armed Forces landed on the shores of said province to liberate the country from enemy occupation;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by Section 30 of the Revised Administrative Code, do hereby declare Friday, October 20, 1950, as a special public holiday in the Province of Leyte.

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 13th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fifth.

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:

TEODORO EVANGELISTA
Executive Secretary

 

© Supreme Court E-Library 2019
This website was designed and developed, and is maintained, by the E-Library Technical Staff in collaboration with the Management Information Systems Office.