TO:	The Commissioner of the Budget and Others Concerned

In view of the critical need for qualified lawyers to be involved in countryside development and in view of the involvement of the Citizens Legal Assistance Office in providing legal assistance to destitute members of the population in all areas ox the Philippines, it is hereby directed that the Citizens Attorneys in the Citizens Legal Assistance Office be granted a 100% adjustments to the prescribed rates as an exception to the provisions of Item No. 2 of Letter of Instructions No. 533, dated April 21, 1977, as follows:

TITLE

Existing Salary

Approved Salary

      Supervising Citizens Attorney

P18,636

P21,624

 

Senior Citizens Attorney

15,264

20,580

 

District Citizens Attorney

13,824

18,636

 

Citizens Attorney

12,516

16,860

Career Executive Service positions in the Citizens Legal Assistance Office will follow the rules of adjustments under Budget Circular No. 274, as follows:

Chief Citizens Attorney

P32,184

  Deputy Chief Citizens Attorney

26,288

  Regional Director

22,728

 

The Salary increases herein shall take effect October 1, 1977.

Done in the City of Manila, this 26th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-seven.

			(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
			President
			Republic of the Philippines
	By the President:
	(Sgd.) JACOBO C. CLAVE
	Presidential Executive Assistant