Proclamation No. 744 (1961)

MALACAÑAN PALACE

MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 744, April 6, 1961 ]

DECLARING THE PERIOD FROM MAY 13 TO 19, 1961 AS PHILIPPINE REALTORS WEEK

WHEREAS, real estate has always been a source and basis of wealth; a haven of existence, peace, and contentment; and a fountain of family and personal happiness;

WHEREAS, the realtor has become an indispensable medium in the wise utilization, proper development, and wide distribution of land; and

WHEREAS, the Philippine Association of Real Estate Boards has been organized to improve and elevate the standards of the real estate business as a cog in the wheel of economic development and progress;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Carlos P. Garcia, President of the Philippines, do hereby proclaim the period from, May 13 to 19, 1961, as Philippine Realtors Week. I call upon all government entities and instrumentalities, as well as all private organizations and individuals concerned with real estate, to join in the proper observance of the week.

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 6th day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-one, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fifteenth.

CARLOS P. GARCIA

President of the Philippines

By the President:

NATALIO P. CASTILLO

Executive Secretary