DECLARING THE PERIOD FROM SEPTEMBER 15, 1954, TO SEPTEMBER 15, 1955, AS THE LITERACY YEAR AND CREATING A COMMITTEE TO TAKE CHARGE OF THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR LITERACY

In order to make the Philippines a completely functionally
literate nation, I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, do hereby
declare the period from September 15, 1954, to September 15, 1955, as the
Literacy Year and create a committee to take charge of the national campaign
for literacy. The committee shall be composed of the following:

I hereby call upon all government and private offices,
public and private schools, professional organizations, cultural, religious,
civic and service clubs, the press and the radio to lend their cooperation and
assistance in making the national campaign for’ literacy successful.

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 11th day of September, in
the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the Independence
of the Philippines, the ninth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By
the President:

FRED
RUIZ CASTRO
Executive Secretary

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