WHEREAS, Thursday, 2 March 2017, marks the celebration of the 167^th Founding Anniversary of the Province of La Union;

WHEREAS, it is but fitting and proper that the people of the Province of La Union, be given full opportunity to celebrate and participate in the occasion with appropriate ceremonies.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, MENARDO I. GUEVARRA, Acting Executive Secretary, by authority of the President, RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE, do hereby declare Thursday, 2 March 2017, as a special (non-working) day in the Province of La Union.

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 9th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Seventeen.