[ ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 45, January 06, 1948 ]

CREATING A COMMITTEE TO TAKE CHARGE OF THE PROPER OBSERVANCE OF CONSTITUTION DAY ON FEBRUARY 8, 1948.



In order to emphasize clearly the significance of the eight day of February which has been declared as Constitution Day every year by Proclamation No. 36, dated February 7, 1936, and to inculcate more effectively the duties and responsibilities of citizenship, thus helping in the development of civic conscience among our people in accordance with the mandate of the Constitution, I, Manuel Roxas, President of the Philippines, do hereby create a Committee to take charge of the proper observance of Constitution Day on February 8, 1948, composed of the following:

Hon. Nicanor Roxas, Acting Executive Secretary

Chairman

Hon. Marciano Roque

Member

Director Esteban Abada

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Dr. Manuel Carreon

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Dr. Paterno Santos

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Mr. Cesar Miraflor

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Dr. Mariano V. de los Santos

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Mr. Enrique Lolarga

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Father William Masterson

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Dr. Gumersindo Garcia

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Mr. Exequiel Villacorta

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Miss Helen Benitez

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Mrs Aurea J. del Carmen

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Mr. Domingo C. Bascara

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Mr. Vicente Lontok

Adviser

The Committee is hereby empowered to seek the assistance and cooperation of any department, bureau, office, agency or instrumentality of the Government in carrying out its work.

Done at the City of Manila, this 6th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the second.

(Sgd.) MANUEL ROXAS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) N. ROXAS
Acting Executive Secretary