MALACAÑAN PALACE Manila
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
Proclamation No. 268
DECLARING SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1938, A SPECIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY
A petition has been received from and on behalf of the associated banks in Manila, requesting that the sixteenth day of April, nineteen hundred and thrity-eight, be declared an official holiday. The banking houses have agreed that negotiable papers which would fall due on the sixteenth day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, if the same were not a holiday, shall be protested until the sunset of the following Monday, April eighteenth, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight.
It appearing to the Chief Executive that, inasmuch as the fourteenth and fifteenth days of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, are public holidays, the said sixteenth day of April, nineteen hundred and thrity-eight, can be declared a special public holiday to the great advantage of the banking houses and no disadvantage will result to the public in general;
Now, therefore, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the authority in me vested...
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Declaring Saturday, April 16, 1938, A Special Public Holiday
Proclamation No. 268
Summary of Proclamation No. 268
Declaration of Special Public Holiday
- President Manuel L. Quezon declared Saturday, April 16, 1938, as a special public holiday in the Philippines. (Section 30 of the Revised Administrative Code)
- This declaration was made upon the request of associated banks in Manila.
- The banks agreed that negotiable papers due on April 16, 1938, would be protested until the sunset of the following Monday, April 18, 1938.
- The President found that declaring April 16, 1938, as a special public holiday would be advantageous for the banking houses and would not disadvantage the general public, considering that April 14 and 15, 1938, were already public holidays.
Declaration of Special Public Holiday
- President Manuel L. Quezon declared Saturday, April 16, 1938, as a special public holiday in the Philippines. (Section 30 of the Revised Administrative Code)
- This declaration was made upon the request of associated banks in Manila.
- The banks agreed that negotiable papers due on April 16, 1938, would be protested until the sunset of the following Monday, April 18, 1938.
- The President found that declaring April 16, 1938, as a special public holiday would be advantageous for the banking houses and would not disadvantage the general public, considering that April 14 and 15, 1938, were already public holidays.