Pursuant to the powers vested in me by Republic Act No. 997, as amended by Republic Act No. 1241, I, Carlos P. Garcia, President of the Philippines, do hereby order the full and complete transfer of the Civil Aeronautics Administration from the Department of Commerce and Industry to the Department of Public Works and Communications as provided in section 31 of Executive Order No. 209, dated October 19, 1956. The postponement of the implementation of Executive Order No. 227, dated January 5, 1957, and Reorganization Plans Nos. 15-A and 27-A relative to commerce and industry, as provided in Executive Order No. 242, dated March 1, 1957, is hereby lifted insofar as the Civil Aeronautics Administration is concerned.

Done in the City of Manila, this 23rd day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the eleventh.


By the President:
(Sgd.) FORTUNATO DE LEON
Executive Secretary