WHEREAS, the seventy-fifth anniversary of the birth of the late President Manuel L. Quezon falls on Wednesday, August 19, 1953;

WHEREAS, the nineteenth day of August of every year is Citizenship Day under Proclamation No. 331 dated August 4, 1952;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by section 30 of the Revised Administrative Code, do hereby declare Wednesday, August 19, 1953, as a special public holiday. I enjoin the observance of the day with appropriate ceremonies stressing the duties as well as the rights of good citizenship to the end that our people will consecrate, themselves to the ideals and traditions of our Republic.

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 Baltimore, Maryland, U. S. A. (for Manila, Philippines), this 8th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-three, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the eighth.

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:
MARCIANO ROQUE
Acting Assistant Executive Secretary