DECLARING THE PERIOD FROM OCTOBER 4 TO 10, 1953, AND EVERY WEEK BEGINNING WITH THE FIRST SUNDAY OF EVERY OCTOBER THEREAFTER, AS BARRIO IMPROVEMENT WEEK.

WHEREAS, there are fifteen million Filipinos
living in the countryside and remote barrios under economic and social
conditions which call for more desirable improvement;

WHEREAS, national progress may be advanced a
great deal by pursuing a program of amelioration operating at the barrio level
and which aims to broaden the opportunities of the people for developing human
and natural resources available in rural areas;

WHEREAS, it is essential to focus public
attention on the requirements and capacities of our barrios, to foster rural
mindedness and leadership among the barrio people, and to stimulate nationwide
efforts of self-help towards rural betterment;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of
the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare
the period from October 4 to 10, 1953, and every week beginning with the first
Sunday of every October thereafter, as Barrio Improvement Week and urge
municipal, provincial, and national government officials and civic-spirited
citizens to cooperate wholeheartedly to insure the success of this celebration.

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 16th day of
June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-three, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the seventh.

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:

MARCIANO ROQUE
Acting Executive Secretary

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