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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 618, July 17, 1995 ]

DECLARING THE PERIOD FROM AUGUST 6 TO 1995, AS PHILIPPINE LAWYERS ASSOCIATION WEEK

WHEREAS, the Philippine Lawyers Association (PLA) is a non-stock, non-profit voluntary bar association organized in 1945;

WHEREAS, the PLA is celebrating its 50th anniversary on the 11th of August, 1995;

WHEREAS, the PLA has been one of the pillars in upholding the dignity and promoting the well-being of the legal profession;

WHEREAS, it has participated in the maintenance in th country of a strong, upright and independent judiciary;

WHEREAS, from 1950 and until the declaration of martial law in 1972, the PLA has observed the Constitution Day on February 8 as a public observance with a program held as a fitting tribute to the framers thereof, led by Don Claro M. Recto;

WHEREAS, the PLA led the first nationwide observance of Law Day which by Presidential Proclamation was held on September 19, 1959;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare the period from August 6 to 12, 1995, as the PHILIPPINE LAWYERS ASSOCIATION WEEK.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.1aшphi1

Done in the City of Manila, this 17th day of July the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety five.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President

(Sgd.) RUBEN D. TORRES
Executive Secretary

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