[ PROCLAMATION NO. 103, December 27, 1954 ]

DECLARING FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1954, AS A SPECIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY



WHEREAS, the thirtieth day (Thursday) of December, 1954, and the first day (Saturday) of January, 1955, being holidays, the thirty-first day (Friday) of December, 1954, may be declared a special ˜public holiday to enable the people to enjoy an uninterrupted Christmas holiday without prejudice to the public interests;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by section 30 of the Revised Administrative Code, do hereby proclaim Friday, December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, 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 27th day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the ninth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:

FRED RUIZ CASTRO
Executive Secretary