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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 19 - AMENDING
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 38 DATED 07 JANUARY 1947 ENTITLED “PROVIDING FOR
THE COAT OF ARMS, SEAL AND FLAG OF THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT OF
THE PHILIPPINES”, AS AMENDED
WHEREAS,
Executive Order No. 38 dated 07 January 1947 entitled “Providing for
the Coat of Arms, Seal and Flag of the President and Vice President of
the Philippines” adopted a Coat of Arms, Seal and Flag design which
consist of the eight-rayed Philippine Sun, with a red equilateral
triangle containing the traditional sea lion with a sword, and a mullet
each at the corner of the three angles;
WHEREAS, Sec. 2 thereof provides that the seal of the President of
the Philippines shall consist of the Coat of Arms of the President of
the Philippines, encircled by the words “Seal of the President of the
Philippines”;
WHEREAS, Executive Order 451 dated 04 July 1951 amended Executive Order
No. 38 to specify that the color of the sun and the sea lion shall be
in golden yellow and, additionally provide that the design shall be
surrounded by stars forming an amulet in a number equivalent to the
number of provinces of the Republic as of 04 July 1951;
WHEREAS, from 1951 to the present, the total number of provinces has
increased from fifty-one (51) to seventy-eight (78); and,
WHEREAS, in view of the continuously changing number of provinces,
there is need to regularly update the Presidential Seal and Flags to
ensure that the number of stars in the amulet matches the number of
provinces of the country at any given time.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Joseph Ejercito Estrada, President of the Republic
of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do
hereby order the following:
Section 1.
“Section 1.
Shield: the eight-rayed
Philippine sun ravonnant in golden yellow; on the center, an
equilateral triangle in gules (red); overall the traditional sea lion
of the Coat of Arms granted to the City of Manila in 1596, on guard
with sword, or at hilt and one mullet in golden yellow in the corner of
each of the three angles of the equilateral triangle: one mullet
representing Luzon; one, Visayas; and another, Mindanao.
The whole, surrounded by stars
in the form of an amulet with one point of each star outward on the
imaginary radiating center lines, the number of stars conforming to the
number of provinces of the Republic at any given time.”
Sec. 2.
Sec. 3. Since 19.07.98.
DONE in the City of Manila,
this 27th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
ninety eight.
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