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 call the Congress of the Philippines to a special session commencing at
four o’clock in the afternoon of the eighth day of January, nineteen hundred
and fifty-one, to continue the consideration of measures submitted to the
Congress in its last special session and such other measures as may be
submitted 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 States, and urgent
legislation to insure the financial stability and national security 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 6th day of
January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, 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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