WHEREAS, on 27 February 2024, Tuesday, the City of General Santos will mark the celebration of its 85^th Founding Anniversary and the 35^th Kalilangan Festival;

WHEREAS, it is but fitting and proper that the people of the City of General Santos be given full opportunity to participate in the foregoing occasion and enjoy the celebration;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, LUCAS P, BERSAMIN, Executive Secretary, by authority of the President, FERDINAND R. MARCOS, JR., do hereby declare Tuesday, 27 February 2024, a special (non-working) day in the City of General Santos,

IN WITNESS THEREOF, 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 26^th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Twenty Four.