WHEREAS, the Government has duly published in the newspapers a call for bids for the collection of abandoned scrap iron, steel, copper, lead and other metal products on land or under water;

WHEREAS, it is necessary that contracts for the collection of said metal products be made between the Government and the successful bidders;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Manuel Roxas, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby designate the National Development Company as the agency of the Government to accept bids and to enter into contracts with the successful bidders for the collection of the abandoned metal products herein-above enumerated, or to collect and dispose of the same where no bids for the collection thereof are submitted and approved.

Done at the City of Manila, this 9th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the first.

(Sgd.) MANUEL ROXAS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) EMILIO ABELLO
Chief of the Executive Office