MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Memorandum Order No. 700, September 24, 1980 ]

CREATING AN INTERIM SECRETARIAT FOR THE COMMISSION ON FILIPINOS OVERSEAS

Pending the formal organization of the Commission Filipinos Overseas created under Batas Pambansa Big. 74, there is hereby created an Interim Secretariat for the said Commission composed of the following:

Col. Rogelio L. Luis
Managing Director
Presidential Management Staff
Chairman
Mr. Melquiades dela Cruz
Presidential Staff Director
Records Office
Member
Mr. Felix C. Hidalgo
Assistant Presidential Staff
Director Administrative Office
Member
Mr. Avencho B. Ducayen
Senior Presidential Staff Officer
Finance Office
Member

The Secretariat shall perform the following functions:

1. It shall receive the records, property and equipment, including the fifteen (15) personnel of the defunct Office Emigrant Affairs, Ministry of Labor and Employment, being transferred to the Commission on Filipinos Overseas by the Minister of Labor and Employment in his attached letter dated September 12, 1980:

2. It shall find a suitable place where the aforementioned records, property and equipment can be stored; and

3. It shall study and prepare the mechanics for the early organization of the Commission consistent with the provisions of Batas Pambansa Blg. 79.1aшphi1

The Secretariat shall submit to the President, through the undersigned, a report on the implementation of this Order within a period of two weeks from the date thereof.

This Memorandum Order takes effect immediately.

(Sgd.) JUAN C. TUVERA
Senior Presidential Assistant

Manila, September 24, 1980


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