Administrative Order No. 59 (1963)

MALACAÑAN PALACE

MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Administrative Order No. 59, May 9, 1963 ]

CREATING A NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO TAKE CHARGE OF THE CELEBRATION OF PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE DAY ON JUNE 12, 1963.

Pursuant to the powers vested in me by law, I, DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL, President of the Philippines, do hereby create a National Committee to take charge of the celebration of Philippine Independence Day on June 12, 1963, as declared in Proclamation No. 28 dated May 12, 1962.

The Committee shall be composed of the following:

The Secretary of Education | Chairman The Undersecretary of National Defense | Vice-Chairman The Undersecretary of Public Works and Communications | Member The Undersecretary of Labor | Member The Deputy Administrator of Economic Coordination | Member The Malacañang Press Secretary | Member The Deputy Commissioner of the Budget | Member The City Mayor of Manila | Member The Director of Public Libraries. | Member The Director of National Museum | Member The Consulting Architect, Bureau of Public Works | Member The President, Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities (PACU) | Member The President, Veterans Federation of the Philippines | Member The President, National Press Club of the Philippines | Member The President, Civic Assembly of Women of the Philippines | Member Mr. Lamberto V. Avellana | Member Mr. Manuel Collas | Member The Presidential Protocol Officer | Member-Secretary

The Committee shall meet at the call of the Chairman and, for the purpose of discharging its functions, may create such sub-committee as may be necessary.

Done in the City of Manila, this 9th day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-three.

(Sgd.) DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) SALVADOR L. MARIÑO

Executive Secretary