Executive Order No. 364




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 364, November 21, 1959 ] CREATING PROVINCIAL, CITY, MUNICIPAL, AND MUNICIPAL DISTRICT CENSUS BOARDS TO ACT AS CONSULTATIVE BODIES AND TO ASSIST THE BUREAU OF THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DURING THE PREPARATION AND ACTUAL ENUMERATION WORK WITHIN THEIR RESPECTIVE JURISDICTIONS IN THE 1960 CENSUS WHEREAS, Commonwealth Act No. 591 authorizes the Bureau of the Census and Statistics “to prepare for and undertake all censuses of population, agriculture, industry, and commerce,” and Republic Act No. 2300 sets aside an appropriation for the taking of the 1960 censuses of population and agriculture; WHEREAS, in order to carry out the provisions of the above-mentioned acts, it is deemed necessary to create provincial, city, municipal, and municipal district census boards; NOW, THEREFORE, I, CARLOS P. GARCIA, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby create a census board in each province, city, municipality, and municipal district to act as a consultative body and to assist the Bureau of the Census and Statistics during the preparatory and actual enumeration work within their respective jurisdictions in the 1960 censuses of population, housing, and agriculture, without extra compensation. The Provincial Census Board shall be composed of the Provincial Governor, as chairman, and the Provincial Treasurer, the Division Superintendent of Schools, and the District Engineer, as members. The City Census Board shall be composed of the City Mayor, as Chairman, and the City Treasurer, the City Superintendent of Schools, and the City Engineer, as members. The Municipal Census Board shall be composed of the Municipal Mayor, as chairman and the Municipal Treasurer and the Superintendent or Principal Teacher, as members. The Municipal District Census Board shall be composed of the Municipal District Mayor, as chairman, and the Municipal District Treasurer and the Supervising or Principal Teacher, as members. The Provincial, City, Municipal, and Municipal District Census Boards shall be responsible for the receipt and safekeeping of all census materials and for assembling and consolidating the census returns and forwarding them to the Bureau of Census and Statistics, provided that the consolidated census returns in the municipalities and municipal districts shall be fowarded to the Bureau of the Census and Statistics by their respective census boards through provincial census boards. The Bureau of the Census and Statistics is hereby charged with the implementation of this Order. Done in the City of Manila, this 21st day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fourteenth. (SGD.) CARLOS P. GARCIA President of the Philippines By the President: (SGD.) ENRIQUE C. QUEMA Assistant Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation