WHEREAS, the Jose Rizal National Commission has been authorized and directed to undertake the construction of a National Cultural Shrine to be dedicated to Jose Rizal, such, shrine to consist of a national theater, a national museum, a national library, and an improved Rizal monument; and

WHEREAS, to be able to carry out the above project, the Commission is authorized by Republic Act No. 1427 and Executive Order No. 226, dated January 2, 1957, to conduct, a nationwide fund campaign in order to afford the people an opportunity to do their share in financing the construction of the shrine and other memorials;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Carlos P. Garcia, President of the Philippines, in order to make the fund drive as general and national in character as possible, appeal to all officials, employees, and laborers of government offices and private establishments to donate their one day ™s pay to the fund drive for the construction of a National Cultural Shrine. I urge all citizens and residents of the Philippines to support this patriotic movement, Jose Rizal being foremost and first in the hearts of the Filipino people.

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 30th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the twelfth.

CARLOS P. GARCIA
President of the Philippines

By the President:

JUAN C. PAJO
Executive Secretary