In order to coordinate all activities of the Government in connection with the public calamity brought about by rat infestation in the Province of Cotabato, as declared in Proclamation No. 8, dated March 1, 1954, I, RAMON MAGSAYSAY, President of the Philippines, do hereby order that all rat-extermination activities of all governmental agencies in the province above named shall be under the supervision and control of the Task Force of the Armed Forces of the Philippines organized in said province for the purpose.

Done in the City of Manila, this 7th day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the eighth.

(Sgd.) RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:
(Sgd.) FRED RUIZ CASTRO
Executive Secretary