Pursuant to the powers vested in me by law, I, RAMON MAGSAYSAY, President of the Philippines, do hereby create a committee to take charge of, and provide the means for, the appropriate observance of Philippine-American Day on August 13, 1954, as declared in Proclamation No. 52 dated July 29, 1954. The committee shall be composed of the following:

The President, Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines ..........................		Co-Chairman
The President, American Chamber of Commerce .....................................		Co-Chairman
The President, Philippine Association .....................................................		Member
The President, Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities .............		Member
The President, USAFFE Veterans ..........................................................		Member
The President, American Association of the Philippines ............................		Member
The Commander, Philippine Department, American Legion .......................		Member
The President, American Historical Association .......................................		Member
The President, Philippine Tourist and Travel Association ..........................		Coordinator

The committee herein created is authorized to appoint subcommittees and to call on any department, bureau, office, agency or instrumentality of the Government as well as on the public in general for such assistance and cooperation as it may need in the discharge of its duties.

Done in the City of Manila, this 3rd day of August, 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