WHEREAS, on 22 March 2024, Friday, the City of Baliwag, Province of Bulacan, will mark the celebration of the 161^th birth anniversary of Mariano Ponce;

WHEREAS, Mariano Ponce, a native of Baliwag, Bulacan, was a prominent member of the propaganda movement and one of the leading figures in the Philippine reform movement during the Spanish colonization;

WHEREAS, it is but fitting and proper that the people of the City of Baliwag be given full opportunity to participate in the 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 Friday, 22 March 2024, a special (non-working) day in the City of Baliwag, Province of Bulacan.

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 11^th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Twenty Four.

 

 

By   authority of the President:

(SGD.) LUCAS P. BERSAMIN
    Executive Secretary