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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 816, June 25, 1996 ]

DECLARING MONDAY, JULY 15, 1996, AS A SPECIAL DAY IN THE CORDILLERA ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

WHEREAS, on July 15, 1987, Executive Order No. 220 created the Cordillera Administrative Region comprising Abra, Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga Apayao, Mountain Province, and the City of Baguio;

WHEREAS, on this historic day, the Cordillera people finally realized their clamor for administrative decentralization, for which they have been struggling to achieve for more than half a century;

WHEREAS, there is a need to focus attention on the historic significance of the occasion;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by Book I, Chapter 7, Section 27, of the Administrative Code of 1987, do hereby declare Monday, July 15, 1996, as a special day in the Cordillera Administrative Region.1aшphi1

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 25th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety six.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President:

(Sgd.) RUBEN D. TORRES
Executive Secretary

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