WHEREAS, in the interest of national progress and prosperity, it is desirable to encourage and promote the improvement and development of land transportation in the country; and

WHEREAS, to attain this objective, it is necessary that the public fully appreciate the benefits derived from land transportation;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ELPIDIO QUIRINO, President of the Philippines, do hereby declare the period from November 29 to December 5, 1951, as Land Transportation Week. I call upon all government offices and instrumentalities as well as all private entities and individuals to participate in the proper observance of said period and to give full publicity to the activities organized in connection therewith.

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 29th day of November, in the year of Our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the sixth.

(SGD.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:
(SGD.) MARCIANO ROQUE
Acting Assistant Executive Secretary