WHEREAS, the observance of Traffic Safety Week and Safe-Driving Day will be more successful and effective with the active participation of the Manila Drivers Association which seeks to inculcate upon drivers of jeepneys, taxi-cabs, trucks, buses, and other motor vehicles the imperative need of preventing traffic accidents throughout the country ;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Ramon Magsaysay President of the Philippines, do hereby amend the fourth paragraph of Proclamation No. 242 dated January 9, 1956, to read as follows:

œNOW, THEREFORE, I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, do hereby declare the period from February 22 to 28 (or 29), inclusive, of every year as Traffic Safety Week and March first of every year as Safe-Driving Day (S-D Day), and designate the National Traffic Commission, with the assistance of the Manila Drivers Association, to take charge of all arrangements and activities for their fitting celebration throughout the Philippines. The Commission is hereby authorized to solicit donations in cash or in kind for the purpose of carrying œout the aim, of this proclamation. 

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 February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-six, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the tenth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:

FORTUNATO DE LEON
Acting Executive Secretary