WHEREAS, on 22 March 2019, Friday, the Municipality of Baliwag, Province of Bulacan, will mark the 156 th birth anniversary of Mariano Ponce;

WHEREAS, Mariano Ponce, a native of Baliwag, Bulacan, was a prominent member of the propaganda movement and one of the leading figures in the Philippine reform movement during the Spanish colonization; and

WHEREAS, it is but fitting and proper that the people of the Municipality of Baliwag be given full opportunity to celebrate and participate in the occasion with appropriate ceremonies;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, SALVADOR C. MEDIALDEA, Executive Secretary, by authority of the President, RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE, do hereby declare Friday, 22 March 2019, a special (non-working) day in the Municipality of Baliwag, Province of Bulacan.

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 28th day of February , in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Nineteen.

 

By authority of the President:       (SGD.) SALVADOR C. MEDIALDEA   Executive Secretary