Proclamation No. 13 (1913)

PROCLAMATIONS

By the Governor General of the Philippine Islands

Proclamation No. 13

Whereas the President of the United States, by and with advice and consent of the United States Senate, on October thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, appointed Honorable Vicente Singson Encarnacién to be a member of the Philip-pine Commission; and

Whereas the said Honorable Vicente Singson Encarnacidén, on the date above mentioned, qualified and took office as such member of the Philippine Commission, thereby vacating the office of Delegate to the Philippine Assembly from the first electoral district of the Province of Ilocos Sur, to which he was elected at the election held on June fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, in the said electoral district of the Prov-ince of Ilocos Sur:

Now, therefore, I, Francis Burton Harrison, Governor- General of the Philippine Islands, pursuant to the provisions of section four of Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and eighty-two, as amended by section four of Act Numbered Two thou-sand and forty-five, do hereby call a special election to be held on Tuesday, February twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, in the first electoral district of the Province of Ilocos Sur, for the purpose of electing a Delegate to the Philippine Assembly from the said district, for the unex-pired term of said Honorable Vicente Singson Encarnacion.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Government of the Philippine Islands to be affixed.

Done at the city of Manila this twenty-fourth day of December, nineteen hundred and thirteen.

[SEAL. ] FRANCIS BURTON HARRISON,

Governor-General.

By the Governor-General:

IGNACIO VILLAMOR, Executive Secretary.