<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">WHEREAS Friday, the 27th day of                                               December, 1985 is not a Statutory                                               Public Holiday.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">                                              AND WHEREAS the P.N.D.C. has                                               declared the said date a holiday                                               in honour of the farmers of this                                               country.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">                                              NOW THEREFORE, in pursuance of the                                               said P.N.D.C. declaration AND IN                                               EXERCISE of the powers conferred                                               on the Provisional National                                               Defence Council by section 2 of                                               the Public Holidays Decree, 1974 (N.R.C.D.                                               262) this instrument is made this                                               20th day of December, 1985.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">                                              Friday the 27th day of December,                                               1985 is hereby declared a Public                                               Holiday.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">                                              FLT.-LT. JERRY JOHN RAWLINGS</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">                                              Chairman of the Provisional                                               National Defence Council</span></p>