Executive Order No. 423




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 423, March 09, 1951 ] AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBERED THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY-EIGHT, DATED DECEMBER TWENTY-SIX, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY, ENTITLED “DECLARING CERTAIN PRIME COMMODITIES AND RAW MATERIALS IN SHORT SUPPLY IN THE PHILIPPINES AND AUTHORIZING THE PRICE STABILIZATION CORPORATION TO IMPORT THE SAME IN ADEQUATE QUANTITIES” By virtue of the powers vested in me by section 5 of Republic Act No. 509, in relation to section 8(6) of Republic Act No. 426, I, ELPIDIO QUIRINO, President of the Philippines, do hereby amend Executive Order No. 388, dated December 26, 1950, by including educational and technical books, book paper and binding- materials among the articles declared in short supply in the Philippines which may be imported without quota allocation by the Price Stabilization Corporation.1âшphi1 Done in the City of Manila, this 9th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fifth. (SGD.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO President of the Philippines By the President: (SGD.) TEODORO EVANGELISTA Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation