WHEREAS, a petition has been received from the Bankers Association of the Philippines representing that the twenty-fourth day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, be declared a special holiday.

WHEREAS, the twenty-second day (Holy Thursday) and the twenty-third day (Good Friday) of March, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, being public holidays, the twenty-fourth day ˜(Saturday) of March, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, may be declared a special public holiday to the great advantage of the banking houses and without any disadvantage to the public in general;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 30 of the Revised Administrative Code, and there being in my judgment sufficient reasons therefor, do hereby proclaim Saturday, March twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, as a special public holiday.

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 19th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and of the Independence of the-Philippines, the fifth.

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:
TEODORO EVANGELISTA
Executive Secretary