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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 44, February 17, 1947 ]

LIFTING THE PROHIBITION AND /OR LIMITATION AGAINST IMPORTATION OF CATTLE INTO THE PHILIPPINES

WHEREAS, section one thousand seven hundred sixty-two of the Revised Administrative Code, as amended by Act Numbered Three thousand fifty-two and Act Numbered Three thousand one hundred fifty-five, prohibit or limit the importation of cattle into the Philippines;

WHEREAS, as a result of the great destruction caused by war on Philippine livestock, the supply of large cattle for work, breeding and meat purposes has considerably been depleted; and

WHEREAS, the condition of the country are such as to make it advisable and urgently necessary to import cattle into the Philippines for the purposes above mentioned;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, MANUEL ROXAS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the Philippines, particularly Commonwealth Act No. 671, do hereby lift the prohibition and/or limitation against the importation of all kinds of cattle, including carabaos, subject, however, to quarantine regulations and to such order, rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce.

Done at the City of Manila , this 17th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-seven and of the Independence of the Philippines , the first.1a⍵⍴h!1

(Sgd.) MANUEL ROXAS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) EMILIO ABELLO
Chief of the Executive Office

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