A Committee is hereby created to study the problems of the abaca industry, with particular reference to the high cost of production and the loss of markets. The Committee shall be composed of the following:

Hon. Miguel Cuaderno .............................................................................		Chairman
Hon. Oscar Ledesma ...............................................................................		Member
Hon. Alfredo Montelibano ........................................................................		Member
Mr. Cesar Lanuza ...................................................................................		Member
Mr. Ricardo Ledesma ..............................................................................		Member

The Committee is authorized to call upon any department, bureau, office, agency or instrumentality of the Government for such assistance or information as it may require in the performance of its functions, and for this purpose, it shall have access to, and the right to examine, any books, documents, papers or records thereof.

The Committee shall submit its report and recommendations to the President of the Philippines within the shortest time possible.

Done in the City of Manila, this 6th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the ninth.

(Sgd.) RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

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