TO:

The Secretary of Agriculture, concurrently Chairman of the Cabinet Coordinating Committee on Integrated Rural Development Projects, and the following member agencies of the CCC-IRDP:  Office of the President, Department of Public Works, Department of Agrarian Reform, Department of Local Governments and Community Development, Department of Natural Resources, Department of Finance, Department of Public Highways, National Economic and Development Authority

The Governor of the Central Bank of the Philippines, and the following supporting institutions of the Development Academy of the Philippines, including the President of the DAP:  Department of National Defense, Development Bank of the Philippines, Land Bank of the Philippines, Civil Service Commission, Government Service Insurance System, Social Security System.

The Budget Commissioner

In order to give more time for the organizers and Secretariat to prepare the necessary Program of Activities and to provide it a much wider coverage and national participation, the National Conference on Countryside Development, originally set to convene during the first week of February (05-12 February 1978) is hereby postponed.

The Secretary of Agriculture, who shall be the conference Chairman, is hereby authorized to set the specific date of the conference;  Provided however, that all participants to the said conference shall be duly informed by the Chairman.

Done in the City of Manila, this 24th day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy eight.

					(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
					President
					Republic of the Philippines
	By the President:
		(Sgd.) JUAN C. TUVERA
			Presidential Assistant