Executive Order No. 445




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 445, August 30, 1961 ] DELEGATING TO THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES THE POWER TO SIGN PATENTS AND CERTIFICATES COVERING LANDS NOT EXCEEDING ONE HUNDRED FORTY-FOUR HECTARES IN AREA CONCURRENTLY WITH THE UNDERSECRETARY FOR NATURAL RESOURCES Pursuant to the authority conferred upon me by section 107 of Commonwealth Act No. 141, otherwise known as the Public Land Act, as last amended by Republic Act No. 3106, I, Carlos P. Garcia, President of the Philippines, hereby delegate to the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources the power to sign patents or certificates covering lands not exceeding One hundred and forty-four (144) hectares in area concurrently with the Undersecretary for Natural Resources. Executive Order No. 310, dated July 31, 1958, is modified accordingly. Done in the City of Manila, this 30th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-one, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the sixteenth.1âшphi1 (SGD.) CARLOS P. GARCIA President of the Philippines By the President: (SGD.) NATALIO P. CASTILLO Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation