WHEREAS, Friday, 15 July 2015, marks the 29^th Foundation Day of the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR);

WHEREAS, to enable the people of the Cordillera Administrative Region celebrate the occasion, the Cordillera Regional Development Council requested that Friday, 15 July 2016 be declared as a special (non-working) day;

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

NOW, THEREFORE, I, SALVADOR C. MEDIALDEA, Executive Secretary, by authority of the President, RODRIGO R. DUTERTE, do hereby declare Friday, 15 July 2016, as a special (non-working) day in the Cordillera Administrative Region.

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 12th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Sixteen.