The first and second paragraphs of Executive Order No. 31, dated November 28, 1946, entitled œCreating the Shipping Commission,  are hereby amended to read as follows:

œBy virtue of the powers vested in me by law, I, Manuel Roxas, President of the Philippines, do hereby create the Shipping Commission to be composed of a Chairman and four Members who shall be appointed by the President of the Philippines. There shall also be a General Manager appointed by the President who shall serve on full time basis with compensation to be fixed by the President.

œThe Chairman and the four Members shall serve on part time basis with per diems at such rate as the President may fix. 

Done at the City of Manila, this 12th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the second.

(Sgd.) MANUEL ROXAS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) EMILIO ABELLO
Chief of the Executive Office