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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 140, February 19, 1941 ]

CREATING A COMMITTEE TO MAKE STUDIES OF, AND SUBMIT RECOMMENDATIONS ON, THE PRELIMINARY PLANS PREPARED BY THE BUREAU OF PUBLIC WORKS FOR UTILIZING THE OLD BILIBID PRISON BUILDINGS AND LOTS IN THE CITY OF MANILA

A Committee composed of Mr. Vicente Fragante, Director of Public Works, as Chairman; and Mr. Jose Paez, General Manager, Manila Railroad Company; Mr. A. D. Williams, Technical Adviser to the President; Mr. Benito Razon, Manager, National Trading Corporation; and Mr. Cornelio Balmaceda, Director of Commerce, as Members, is hereby created and constituted to study the preliminary plans prepared by the Bureau, of Public Works for utilizing the old Bilibid Prison buildings and lots in the City of Manila, for the following purposes, with the exception of the Bilibid hospital and its premises, which is to be used as a maternity hospital:

(1) For a market and parking lots to be operated by the National Trading Corporation;

(2) For the National Produce Exchange and the Manila Trading Center and Exchange to be operated by the Bureau of Commerce; and

(3) For buildings to house the Bureau of Commerce, the National Trading Corporation, the National Abaca and Other Fiber Corporation, the National Tobacco Corporation, and the National Coconut Corporation.

This Committee, which shall meet at such places and times as may be designated by the Chairman, shall submit its findings and recommendations to the President at the earliest practicable date.1âшphi1

Done at the City of Manila, this 19th day of February in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-one, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the sixth.

(Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President

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