In view of the present precarious condition of the sugar industry, I, Manuel Roxas, President of the Philippines, do hereby waive the additional progressive taxes provided for in section 2 of Commonwealth Act No. 567 for the 1946-1947 crops to be collected from and paid by the proprietors or operators of sugar mills.

Done at the City of Manila, this 3rd day of September, 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