WHEREAS, the special session of the Congress of the Philippines authorized under Proclamation No. 196 will expire at midnight of August 11, 1950; and

WHEREAS, the public interest requires that this special session be extended to consider and finish 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 extend for a period of ten days from August 12, 1950, the period of the special session of the Congress of the Philippines authorized under Proclamation No. 196, dated July 25, 1950, for the purpose of considering pending bills and other urgent legislative measures as the President may submit to 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 11th day of August, 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