WHEREAS, the death of Mayor Arsenic H. Lacson of Manila, a national figure esteemed by the Filipino people, is a great loss not only to the people of the City of Manila but also to the entire nation, and has caused deep sorrow among them;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Diosdado Macapagal, President of the Philippines, do hereby proclaim the period from today to the day of the burial of: the late Mayor Arsenio H. Lacson as a period of National mourning. During this period, flags of all government buildings and installations throughout the Philippines shall be flown at half-mast.

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 16th day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the sixteenth.

DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL
President of the Philippines

By the President:

AMELITO R. MUTUC
Executive Secretary