[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 83, December 04, 1954 ]
AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 23 DATED APRIL 7, 1954, ENTITLED PROVIDING AN AWARD OF ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PESOS (P100,000.00) FOR THE BEST METHOD OF ERADICATING RATS BY MEANS OF MICROORGANISM - VIRUS, BACTERIUM, BACILLUS OR FUNGUS - NOT DANGEROUS TO HUMAN BEINGS, ANIMALS AND PLANTS.
1. The sum of P100,000.00 is authorized to be paid out of any existing appropriations for the Executive Office that may be lawfully used for the purpose, as prize or award to any person who can discover any microorganism - virus, bacterium, fungus, etc.-capable of effectively killing and exterminating rats that spread disease or destroy agricultural crops, products, foods, clothing and plants essential to the national economy and useful to the life, health and well-being of the people.
This Order shall take effect as of April 7, 1954.
Done in the City of Manila, this 4th day of December, 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