MALACAÑANG

RESIDENCE OF THE PRESIDENT
OF THE PHILIPPINES
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

PROCLAMATION NO. 8

DECLARING THE PERIOD FROM FEBRUARY 28 TO MARCH 4 OF EACH YEAR AS NATIONAL PRESS WEEK

In order that the people may appreciate fully the vital role of the press in our community and national life, I, Diosdado Macapagal, President of the Philippines, do hereby declare the period from February 26 to March 4 of each year as National Press Week.

I hereby enjoin all the people of the Philippines to lend full support and cooperation in the proper observance of National Press Week to the end that the press shall continue to be free, militant, and fearless in upholding the people’s right.

Proclamation No. 365, dated February .3, 1953, is hereby revoked.

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 13th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the sixteenth.

DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL
President of the Philippines

By the President:

AMELITO R. MUTUC
Executive Secretary

Source: Legislative Library, House of Representatives