TO:
Pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 830, dated November 27, 1975, the following functions now being underta en by the Office of the President are hereby transferred to the heads of departments, offices or entities indicated hereunder:

1. To the Chairman, Civil Service Commission
   
   
   1. Approval of rules and regulations promulgated by the Professional Regulation Commission and decision on appeals on administrative cases involving professionals.
      
   2. Approval of detail of national government officials and employees from one department to another for more than thirty days.
      
   3. Authority to reinstate in the service previously retired employees, to appoint persons 57 years old and above, and to extend the services of those who are already 65 years old, except Presidential appointees.
      
   4. Change of status of appointment from temporary to permanent for purposes of retirement.
      
   
   
2. To the Chairman, Commission on Audit
   
   
   1. Compromise or release in whole or in part any claim or settled liability to the Government not exceeding P10,000.00.
      
   
   
3. To the Commissioner of the Budget
   
   
   1. Approval of applications for exemption from the ban against optional retirement under Republic Act No0 1616, as amended.
      
   
   
4. To the Secretary of General Services or the Head of successor agency-
   
   
   1. Approval of the disposition or assignment of alien properties and deactivated military reservations.
      
   2. Approval of negotiated contracts for services or for furnishing supplies, materials ant equipment to the government involving an amount of P100,000 or less for national government agencies and P200,000 or less for government-owned or controlled corporations unless otherwise provided in their respective charters.
      
   3. Approval of negotiated contracts wherein the government is required to make advance payment for services not yet rendered and/or for supplies and materials not yet delivered involving an amount of P100,000 or less for national government agencies and P200,000 or less for government-owned or controlled corporations unless otherwise provided in their respective charters.
      
   
   
5. To the Secretary of Justice
   
   
   1. Action on immigration matters including waiver of visas and admission of aliens except deportation matters.
      
   2. Granting of authority for excavation of hidden treasures in government lands;
   
   
   
6. To the Secretary of Education and Culture
   
   
   1. Approval of inscriptions on historical markers.
      
   
   
7. To the Secretary of Public Highways
   
   
   1. Designation or discontinuance of national toll roads and bridges and the fixing of toll rates that may be selected thereat.
      
   
   
8. To the Secretary of Natural Resources
   
   
   1. Approval of issuance of lend patents for areas in excess of 144 hectares.
   
   
   
9. To Department Heads Concerned
   
   
   1. Approval of detail of national government officials and employees from one office to another in the same department.
      
      
10. To Clerk of Court of the Court of First Instance Issuing the Notarial License
    
    
    1. Authentication of signatures of notaries public appearing on documents intended for use in foreign countries.

This Letter of Implementation shall take effect immediately.

Done in the city of Manila, this 18th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-six.

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