[ PROCLAMATION NO. 238, December 27, 1955 ]
DECLARING SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1955, AS A SPECIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY
WHEREAS, the thirtieth day (Friday) of December, 1955, and the first day (Sunday) of January, 1956, being holidays, the thirty-first day (Saturday) of December, 1955, may be declared a special public holiday to enable the people to enjoy an uninterrupted Christmas holiday without prejudice to the public interest;
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 Saturday, December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fifty five, 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-five and of the Independence of the Philippines, the tenth.
RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines
By the President:
MARIANO YENKO, JR.
Assistant Executive Secretary