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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 4, July 19, 1946 ]

CREATING AN INTERDEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE TO TAKE CHARGE OF REQUESTS FOR THE ALLOCATION OF QUOTAS FOR FOOD THAT MAY BE OBTAINED BY THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES FROM THE INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY FOOD COUNCIL AND FOR OTHER VITAL MATERIALS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COMMODITY DIVISION OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

WHEREAS, the Republic of the Philippines has, from time to time, to request allocation of quotas for food from the International Emergency Food Council and for other materials and articles of urgency needed for the industrial rehabilitation of the Philippines from the International Commodity Division of the United States Department of Commerce; and

WHEREAS, it is necessary that such requests should be based upon a coordinated data gathered from government as well as private sources;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, MANUEL ROXAS, President of the Philippines, do hereby create a committee to be composed of:

The Director General, PRRA, Chairman

The Commissioner of the Budget, Member;

The Under-secretary of Agriculture and Commerce, Member;

The Under-secretary of Public Works and Communications, Member;

The Manager, NARIC, Member; and

The Manager, National Trading Corporation, Member

to receive all requests from the different offices, agencies, and instrumentalities of the Government as well as from private persons, agencies and entities regarding the national requirements for food and for building materials, tools for the mechanic trades, and machinery and equipment of all kinds; to determine the need, reasonableness, and urgency of these requests; and to endorse the same, together with its recommendations, to the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, who shall make the necessary representation on these matters to the International Emergency Food Council and the International Commodity Division of the United States Department of Commerce on behalf of the Republic of the Philippines.ᇈWᑭHIL

Effective today, no office, agency or instrumentality of the Government shall make direct requests to the International Emergency Food Council or the International Commodity Division of the United States Department of Commerce for the allocation of quotas for food and other articles and materials for the Philippines,

Done at the City of Manila, this 19th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-six, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the first.

(Sgd.) MANUEL ROXAS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) EMILIO ABELLO
Chief of the Executive Office

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