The third paragraph of Executive Order No. 27, dated December 18, 1946, entitled œCreating the Surplus Property Commission to take charge of the acceptance, administration, sale and disposition of the surplus property acquired by the Government of the Republic of the Philippines from the Government of the United States of America,  is hereby amended to read as follows:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Manuel Roxas, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution and section 2 of Republic Act No. 33, do hereby create and constitute a Commission to be known as the Surplus Property Commission which shall be composed of a Chairman and four members to be appointed by the President. 

Done at the City of Manila, this 20th 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