[ LETTER OF INSTRUCTION NO. 69, March 31, 1973 ]

TO : The Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Attn: The Director of Lands
In order to expedite the acquisition of private lands urgently needed for the construction of infrastructure projects, it is hereby directed that whenever any government agency requests the Bureau of Lands for Survey Plans, Technical Descriptions and other related data needed by it to facilitate the filing of expropriation cases, such documents should be made immediately available to the requesting agency.

It is also desired that the Bureau of Lands immediately process, evaluate and/or approve Survey Returns submitted by any government agency, which are necessary to facilitate the acquisition of urgently needed private lands for the construction of infrastructure projects, Immediate compliance with this order is enjoined.

Done in the City of Manila, this 31st day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-three.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President
Republic of the Philippines