Proclamation No. 1142




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ Proclamation No. 1142, December 18, 1997 ] DECLARING FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1997 AS A SPECIAL DAY THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY In consideration of the Filipino tradition of visiting relatives and spending time with ones family on Christmas Day, and to give all opportunity to our people to properly observe this day which falls on a Thursday, the following day may be declared as a special day without detriment to public interest. Accordingly, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare Friday, December 26, 1997 as a special day throughout the country. 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 18th day of December in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Seven. (Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS By the President: (Sgd.) RUBEN D. TORRES Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation