By virtue of the powers vested in me, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby create a committee to investigate the complaints of the Municipal Council of Carigara, Leyte, and the Carigara Farmers Cooperative Association against the logging operations of the Northern Leyte Consolidated Timber Corporation within the proposed Carigara Watershed Reservation to be composed of the following:

Representative of the U.P. College of Forestry	Chairman
Representative of the National Irrigation Administration	Member
Representative of the Bureau of Soils	Member
Representative of the Bureau of Forestry	Member
Representative of the Bureau of Public Highways	Member

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

The Committee shall submit its report and recommendation to the President as soon as practicable, together with a draft of proclamation establishing the Carigara Watershed Reservation.

Done in the City of Manila, this 27th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-one.


By the President:

(Sgd.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Executive Secretary