Acts of First- Philippine Legislature Author:Philippines General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1908 Original Publisher: Govt. print. off. Description: Continuation of "Acts of the Philippine commission." Subjects: Law Philippines Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy ... more »the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: A. B. No. 205. [No. 1818.] AN ACT Amending Act Numbered Three hundred and forty-five, entitled "An Act designating the days which shall be observed as public holidays in the Philippine Islands," ns amended, among others by Act Numbered Sixteen hundred and seventy-one, so as to make the first day of May an oflicial holiday and to empower the governor-general to make any working day an official holiday, under certain conditions. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Legislature, that: Section 1. Section one of Act Numbered Three hundred and forty- five, as last amended by Act Numbered Sixteen hundred and seventy- one, is hereby further amended to read as follows: " Section 1. The first day of each week, commonly called Sunday, the first of January, the twenty-second of February, Thursday and Friday of what is commonly called Holy Week, the first of May, to be known as Labor Day, the thirtieth of May, to be known as Memorial Day in honor of the soldiers and sailors of the United States who gave up their lives for their country, the fourth of July, the thirteenth of August, Thanksgiving Day, the twenty-fifth of December, and the thirtieth of December shall be public holidays. The thirtieth of July, nineteen hundred and seven, and the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November of each odd numbered year and the days which may be proclaimed by virtue of section two hereof shall also be public holidays in all those provinces and Assembly dist...« less