WHEREAS, rural banks play a vital role in the economic development of the country;

WHEREAS, the Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines will hold its annual convention on April 25-27, 1958;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Carlos P. Garcia, President of the Philippines, in order to give due recognition to the collective efforts of our rural bankers in pushing through the rural banking program, do hereby declare the period from April 21 to 26, 1958, as Rural Bank Week.

The Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines is hereby designated, to take charge of the celebration of the week.

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 21st day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the twelfth.

CARLOS P. GARCIA
President of the Philippines

By the President:

JUAN C. PAJO
Executive Secretary