By virtue of the powers vested in me by law, I, RAMON MAGSAYSAY, President of the Philippines, do hereby create a committee to conduct a nation-wide survey of the effects of the Minimum Wage Law and to ascertain the actual social and economic conditions arising from the operation of said law. The Committee shall be composed of the following:

Hon. Sotero Cabahug ..................................................................................		Chairman
Dean Jorge C. Bocobo .................................................................................		Member
Dr. Gaudencio Garcia ...................................................................................		"
Dr. Amando Dalisay .....................................................................................		"
Rev. Fr. Pacifico Ortiz, S. J. ...........................................................................		"
Commissioner Enrique M. Fernando ...............................................................		"

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

For the purpose of the nation-wide survey, 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 need in the performance of its functions.

Done in the City of Manila, this 18th day of November, 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