In view of the length of service (about twenty-eight years) rendered to the government by the respondent, Mr. Damiano B. Villalba, former Chief of the Fire Department of Butuan City, I, RAMON MAGSAYSAY, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby modify Administrative Order No. 71, dated November 1, 1954, removing him from office, by considering him as resigned from the service, effective as of the date he was preventively suspended in connection with the administrative case against him for electioneering, without prejudice to receiving whatever rights and benefits he may be entitled to under existing laws.

Done in the City of Manila, this 18th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the tenth.

(Sgd.) RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:
(Sgd.) MARIANO YENKO, JR.
Assistant Executive Secretary