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 ten days commencing at ten o ™clock in the morning of the 1st day of August, 1950, for the purpose of considering such specific measures as will be included in a special message.

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 25th day of July in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fifth.

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:

TEODORO EVANGELISTA
Executive Secretary