WHEREAS, R.A. No. 6721 was enacted on March 20, 1989, œDeclaring November 13 of each year as special public holiday in the Province of Pangasinan ;

WHEREAS, Thursday, November 13, 2008, marks the commemoration of the birth anniversary of the late Speaker Eugenio Perez;

WHEREAS, to enable the people of the Province of Pangasinan to celebrate the occasion and observe the holiday-economics policy, the Office of the Governor requested that Friday, November 14, 2008 be declared as special (non-working) day instead of November 13, 2008, which falls on a Thursday;

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

NOW, THEREFORE, I, EDUARDO R. ERMITA, Executive Secretary, by authority of Her Excellency, GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO, do hereby declare Friday, November 14, 2008, as special (non-working) day in the Province of Pangasinan.

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 7th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Eight.


By the Executive Secretary:

(Sgd.) JOAQUIN C. LAGONERA
Senior Deputy Executive Secretary