Memorandum Circular No. 41




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ Memorandum Circular No. 41, May 16, 1966 ] AUTHORIZING THE HOLDING IN THE PROVINCE OF SORSOGON OF A TWO-WEEK SEMINAR ON ECONOMIC AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT. The Bicol Development Planning Board, with the technical assistance of the International Rice Research Institute, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Asia Foundation, is sponsoring a seminar on economic and agricultural development in the province of Sorsogon on June 12-23, 1966. In view of the imperative need to focus continuing attention on a nationwide scale on the agricultural and economic development programs of the Administration, the holding of the seminar as well as the participation therein of not more than two representatives each from the Bureau of Plant Industry, Bureau of Animal Industry, Bureau of Public Schools, Bureau of Forestry, Bureau of Fisheries, Bureau if Soils, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Philippine Administration, Agricultural Credit Administration, National Irrigation Administration, Bureau of Commerce, Bureau of Lands and Abaca Development Board, and other offices concerned with agriculture, who are stationed in the Bicol region, and of provincial, city and municipal officials and employees in the Bicol region not to exceed three from each local government concerned, is hereby authorized. The Agricultural Productivity Commission and the Presidential Assistant on Community Development may, however, send one or two representatives from each of their provincial, city and municipal units. The expenses for travel and board and lodging of the participants shall be chargeable against the appropriations of their respective prices, subject to the availability of funds and the usual accounting and auditing requirements. The participants shall submit to their respective agency heads report of their attendance and participation in the seminar.1âшphi1 By authority of the President (SGD.) RAFAEL M. SALAS Executive Secretary Manila, May 16, 1966 The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation