WHEREAS, the Municipality of M'lang, Province of Cotabato will celebrate the "Kawayanan Festival" on Friday, 9 December 2016;

WHEREAS, it is but fitting and proper that the people of the Municipality of M'lang, Province of Cotabato be given full opportunity to participate and celebrate the occasion with appropriate ceremonies.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, SALVADOR C. MEDIALDEA, Executive Secretary, by authority of the President, RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE, do hereby declare Friday, 9 December 2016, as a special (non-working) day in the Municipality of M'lang, Province of Cotabato.

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 14th day of November , in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Sixteen.