An Expropriation Committee in the Office of the President of the Philippines is hereby created to study requests for the expropriation of landed estates and home sites pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution and of Republic Act No. 267, as amended by Republic Act No. 498. The Committee shall be composed of the following:

Mr. Manuel E. Casta eda	Chairman
Mr. Faustino Sychangco	Member
Mr. V. Lontok	Member

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

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