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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 1176, March 9, 1998 ]

DECLARING FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, MARCH 13 AND 14, 1998, AS NON-WORKING SPECIAL DAYS IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF PASSI, PROVINCE OF ILOILO

WHEREAS, Republic Act No. 8469 mandates the conversion of the Municipality of Passi in the Province of Iloilo, into a component city to be known as the City of Passi;

WHEREAS, the Commission on Elections under Resolution No. 2996, dated February 23, 1998, has scheduled the plebiscite date for the conversion of the Municipality of Passi, Province of Iloilo, into a component city, on March 14, 1998;

WHEREAS, to enable the residents of the said municipality to actively participate in the scheduled political exercise, there is a need to declare the plebiscite day and the day prior thereto as special days;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare Friday and Saturday, March 13 and 14, 1998 as non-working special days in the Municipality of Passi, Province of Iloilo.1aшphi1

IN WITNESS, 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 9th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety-eight.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President:

(Sgd.) ALEXANDER P. AGUIRRE
Executive Secretary

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