WHEREAS, the Philippine Tuberculosis Society has been authorized to conduct its annual national fund and educational drive from August 19, 1957, to September 30, 1957, under Proclamation No. 430, dated August 8, 1957;

WHEREAS, the Society needs more time to enable it to raise its goal of P600,000; and

WHEREAS, it is necessary that this amount be fully covered so as not to impair the services and activities of the Society;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Carlos P. Garcia, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the authority vested in me by law, do hereby extend the period of the national fund and educational drive of the Philippine Tuberculosis Society up to October 31, 1957.

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 4th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the twelfth.


By the President:

FORTUNATO DE LEON
Executive Secretary