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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 1177, March 9, 1998 ]

DECLARING THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, MARCH 19 AND 20, 1998, AS NON-WORKING SPECIAL DAYS IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF SAN FERNANDO, PROVINCE OF LA UNION

WHEREAS, Republic Act No. 8509 mandates the conversion of the Municipality of San Fernando in the Province of La Union, into a component city to be known as the City of San Fernando;

WHEREAS, the Commission on Elections under Resolution No. 2998, dated February 25, 1998, has scheduled the plebiscite date for the conversion of the Municipality of San Fernando, Province of La Union, into a component city, on March 20, 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 Thursday and Friday, March 19 and 20, 1998 as non-working special days in the Municipality of San Fernando, Province of La Union.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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