Paragraph No. 1 of Executive Order No. 33, dated December 27, 1946, entitled œPromulgating rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of Republic Act Numbered thirty entitled An Act authorizing the payment, under certain conditions, of a gratuity to the widow and/or children, and in their absence to the other heirs, of a deceased officer or member of any police force or similar governmental organization engaged in the maintenance of peace and order, appropriating funds therefor, ™  is hereby amended to read as follows:

œ1.Claims under the aforesaid Act shall be paid only after the Secretary of th Interior, upon the advice of the provincial governor with respect to members of th police force in his province and of the provincial commander with respect to members of the Military Police Command, has determined that they come within or that they fully satisfy the requirements of Republic Act No. 30. 

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