TO:	The Secretary of Education and Culture The Commissioner of the Budget

WHEREAS, the educational interest, welfare and upliftment of the poor and deserving students have primarily been the growing concern of the government;

WHEREAS, the government recognizes that the existing fates of scholarship allowances given to national state scholars are inadequate and unrealistic to meet with the essential needs relative to their educational endeavor;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, do hereby order and direct:

1. The increase, effective September 1, 1976, of the allowance of each national state scholar under the State Scholarship Program to an amount not exceeding P3,000 per school year or P300 per month, exclusive of tuition and other school fees and the grant of an annual book allowance of P500 per scholar;
2. The Budget Commissioner to release the amount necessary to fund the increased rates, to be funded from the Special Activities Fund.

Done in the City of Manila, this 8th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-six.