Whereas the Secretary of War will arrive on the fourteenth day nf October at Manila for the purpose of formally opening the Philippine Assembly; and
Whereas the Philippine Assembly will be formally opened by the Secretary of War on the sixteenth of October, nineteen hundred and seven : and
Whereas it is meet and proper that said days, and the fifteenth of October, nineteen hundred and seven, should be set apart as days of general rejoicing in honor of the visit of the Secretary of War and the formal opening of the Philippine Assembly: Now, therefore.
By authority of the United Stales, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: