WHEREAS President Quezon passed away on the first day of this month, at Saranac Lake, New York; and

WHEREAS President Quezon had consecrated his life to the cause of our freedom; and

WHEREAS August 19, 1944, will be the sixty-sixth anniversary of the birth of Manuel L. Quezon, first President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines; and

WHEREAS it would be fitting and proper that a special public holiday be declared so that Filipinos everywhere may go to their churches to pray for our beloved leader and hold memorial services to honor his memory and extoll his character and public service;

NOW, THEREFORE, in pursuance of the provisions of section thirty of the Revised Administrative Code, I, Sergio Osme a, President of the Philippines, do hereby proclaim August nineteenth, nineteen hundred and forty-four, a special public holiday.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Commonwealth of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, District of Columbia, this tenth day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-four, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the ninth. [SEAL]