By virtue of the powers vested in me by law, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby create a technical committee to undertake the necessary study, investigation and survey of the boundary line between the province of Cagayan on the one hand and the province of Isabela, Kalinga-Apayao and Ilocos Norte on the other with a view to determining its true and correct location, composed of the following:

Director, Bureau of Coast & Geodetic Survey.........................................................................................................	Chairman
District Forester of Cagayan .................................................................................................................................	Member
District Land Officer of Cagayan ..........................................................................................................................	Member
Highway District Engineer of Cagayan ..................................................................................................................	Member
District Forester of Isabela ...................................................................................................................................	Member
District Land Officer of Isabela ...........................................................................................................................	Member
Highway District Engineer of Isabela ..................................................................................................................	Member
District Forester of Kalinga-Apayao ...................................................................................................................	Member
District Land Officer of Kalinga-Apayao ............................................................................................................	Member
Highway District Engineer of Kalinga-Apayao ....................................................................................................	Member
District Forester of Ilocos Norte ........................................................................................................................	Member
District Land Officer of Ilocos Norte .................................................................................................................	Member
Highway District Engineer of Ilocos Norte .........................................................................................................	Member

The Committee may call upon any department, bureau, office, agency or instrumentality of the government for such assistance as it may need in the performance of its task.

The Committee shall complete its work and submit to this Office, furnishing the Provincial Boards of the provinces involved, a report of its accomplishments together with its recommendation within a period of six (6) months from the date hereof.

All expenses incurred by the Committee in the execution of its task shall be borne share and share alike by the aforementioned provinces.
Done in the City of Manila, this 29th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy.


By the President:

(Sgd.) ERNESTO M. MACEDA
Executive Secretary