Declaring Saturday, March 23, 1940, A Special Public Holiday
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Declaring Saturday, March 23, 1940, A Special Public Holiday
Proclamation No. 512
March 1, 1940
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Summary of Proclamation No. 512Declaration of Special Public Holiday
- Saturday, March 23, 1940 was declared a special public holiday in the Philippines. (Section 30 of the Revised Administrative Code)
- This was in response to a petition from associated banks in Manila.
- The banks agreed that negotiable papers due on March 23, 1940 would not be protested until the sunset of the following Monday, March 25, 1940.
- It was advantageous for the banking houses and did not disadvantage the public in general.
- President Manuel L. Quezon issued the proclamation on March 1, 1940, under the authority vested in him by Section 30 of the Revised Administrative Code.
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Declaring Saturday, March 23, 1940, A Special Public Holiday
Proclamation No. 512
•March 1, 1940
MALACAÑANG PALACEManila
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
Proclamation No. 512
DECLARING SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1940, A SPECIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY
A petition has been received from and on behalf of the associated banks in Manila, requesting that the twenty-third day of March, nineteen hundred and forty, be declared an official holiday. The banking houses have agreed that negotiable papers which would fall due on the twenty-third day of March, nineteen hundred and forty, if the same were not a holiday, shall not be protested until the sunset of the following Monday, March twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and forty.
It appearing to the Chief Executive that, inasmuch as the twenty-first and twenty-second days of March, nineteen hundred and forty, are public holidays, the twenty-third day of March, nineteen hundred and forty, 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 by section thirty...
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Philippines
Manuel L. Quezon
Revised Administrative Code
MALACAÑANG PALACEManila
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
Proclamation No. 512
DECLARING SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1940, A SPECIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY
A petition has been received from and on behalf of the associated banks in Manila, requesting that the twenty-third day of March, nineteen hundred and forty, be declared an official holiday. The banking houses have agreed that negotiable papers which would fall due on the twenty-third day of March, nineteen hundred and forty, if the same were not a holiday, shall not be protested until the sunset of the following Monday, March twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and forty.
It appearing to the Chief Executive that, inasmuch as the twenty-first and twenty-second days of March, nineteen hundred and forty, are public holidays, the twenty-third day of March, nineteen hundred and forty, 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 by section thirty...
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