December 16, 1971

PROCLAMATION NO. 941

DECLARING TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1972, AS A SPECIAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY IN THE BICOL REGION

WHEREAS, Tuesday, January 4, 1972, marks the anniversary of the execution of the 15 martyrs of Bicol in 1897; and

WHEREAS, the people of the Bicol Region should be given opportunity to render homage to the heroism and love of country of the martyrs through appropriate ceremonies; SCHIcT

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ALEJANDRO MELCHOR, Executive Secretary, by order of His Excellency, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby declare Tuesday, January 4, 1972, as a special public holiday in the Bicol Region.

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 16th day of December, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-One.