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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 253, June 27, 1957 ]

ABOLISHING THE COMMITTEE ON THE RESTORATION OF THE RIZAL HOME IN CALAMBA AND THE DAPITAN PARK IN ZAMBOANGA AND TRANSFERRING ITS PERSONNEL, PROPERTY, ASSETS, AND RECORDS TO THE JOSE RIZAL NATIONAL CENTENNIAL COMMISSION

WHEREAS, the work of the Committee created by Administrative Order No. 76, dated December 16, 1948, on the restoration of the Rizal Home in Calamba and the Dapitan Park in Zamboanga has been almost completed;

WHEREAS, by virtue of a presidential, directive, the Committee is also taking charge of the Fort Santiago Shrine in Manila; and

WHEREAS, the functions of the Committee merely duplicate those of the Jose Rizal National Centennial Commission created by Executive Order No. 52, dated August 10, 1954;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, CARLOS P. GARCIA, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby abolish the Committee on the Restoration of the. Rizal Home in Calamba and the Dapitan Park in Zamboanga and transfer its personnel, property, assets, and records to the Jose Rizal National Centennial Commission.

Done in the City of Manila, this 27th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred land fifty-seven, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the eleventh.1âшphi1

(Sgd.) CARLOS P. GARCIA
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) FORTUNATO DE LEON
Executive Secretary

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