[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 48, July 21, 1954 ]

DELEGATING TO THE UNDERSECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES THE POWER TO SIGN PATENTS AND CERTIFICATES.



Pursuant to the authority conferred upon me by Section 107 of Commonwealth Act No. 141, as amended by Republic Act No. 1172, I, RAMON MAGSAYSAY, President of the Philippines, do hereby delegate to the Undersecretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources the power to sign patents or certificates covering lands not exceeding one hundred forty-four (144) hectares in area.

Done in the City of Manila, this 21st 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