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