WHEREAS, under the present arrangement of paying the salaries of government officials and employees twice a month the drawing of partial salaries before pay days has become a common practice;

WHEREAS, to stop this practice without causing inconvenience to the rank and file of government personnel, it is necessary to change the existing arrangement of paying the salaries of government officials and employees;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Carlos P. Garcia, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby direct the payment of salaries of government officials and employees, including those of government-owned or controlled corporations, once a week or four times a month.

This Order shall take effect as of August 1, 1958.

Done in the City of Manila, this 6th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, and of the Independence of the Philippines the thirteenth.


By the President:
(Sgd.) JUAN C. PAJO
Executive Secretary