AMENDING PROCLAMATION NO. 246 DATED JANUARY 18, 1956, ENTITLED “DECLARING THE PERIOD FROM APRIL 1 TO 7, 1956, AS ‘AID TO THE BLIND AND HANDICAPPED WEEK’”

The second paragraph of Proclamation No. 246
dated January 18, 1956, is hereby amended to read as follows:

“NOW, THEREFORE, I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of
the Philippines, do hereby declare the period from April 1 to 7, 1956, as ‘Aid
to the Blind and Handicapped Week,’ during which the Social Welfare
Administration shall conduct a campaign for funds for the blind and other
handicapped persons. The officers of the Foundation for the Blind of the
Philippines, Inc., the Philippine Association for the Sightless line, the
United Blind Association, Inc., and the Philippine Blind, Deaf, Dumb, and
Crippled Association Inc., shall assist and cooperate with the Social Welfare
Administration hut all their activities in connection with the campaign shall
he under the direct supervision and control of the Social Welfare
Administration who shall issue rules and regulations regarding the manner of
participation of the said associations or entities.”

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
February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-six, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the tenth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:

FORTUNATO DE LEON
Acting Executive Secretary