WHEREAS, the public interest requires that the Congress of the Philippines be convened in special session in order to consider urgent legislative measures;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby call the Congress of the Philippines to a special session for a period of four days commencing at 7:30 o ™clock in the morning of the 30th day of December, 1949, for the purpose of considering the report of the President on the issuance of Executive Orders Nos. 225, 226, 239, and 240, all series of 1949; the extension of the Import Control Law; the creation of a Presidential Electoral Tribunal to take cognizance of protests against the election of the President and the Vice-President of the Philippines; and the reorganization by the President of the Philippines of the different executive departments, bureaus, offices, agencies and other instrumentalities of the Government, including the corporations owned and controlled by it.

All persons entitled to sit as members of the Congress of the Philippines are requested to take notice of this proclamation.

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 December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fourth.

ELPIDIO QURINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:
MARCIANO ROQUE
Acting Executive Secretary