CALLING THE CONGRESS OF THE PHILIPPINES TO A SPECIAL SESSION

WHEREAS, the public interest requires that the
Congress of the Philippines be convened in special session in order to consider
urgent legislative measures;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of
the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do
hereby pall the Congress of the Philippines to a special session commencing at
four o’clock in the afternoon of the fourth day of December, nineteen hundred
and fifty, to consider measures necessary to carry into effect the Memorandum
Agreement signed in Baguio on November 14, 1950, by the President of the
Philippines and Mr. William C. Foster, as Representative of the President of
the United Stated, recommending to their respective Governments a program
cohering the nature and form of the assistance and cooperation which the
Government of the United States would have to extend to the Government of the
Philippines; to enact tax legislation and to adopt such other measures as will
insure the financial stability of the Government of the Republic of the
Philippines.

All persons entitled to sit as members of the
Congress of the Philippines are requested to take notice 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 23rd day of
November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the fifth.

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:

TEODORO EVANGELISTA
Executive Secretary

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