Pursuant to the powers vested in me by law, and in order to compensate the additional services which city and municipal treasurers are called upon to perform in the implementation of Republic Act No. 1180, I, RAMON MAGSAYSAY, President of the Philippines, do hereby order:

1. A fee of two pesos (P2.00) is hereby authorized to be collected for the issuance of a permit to engage in the retail business in the Philippines to every person who is not a citizen of the Philippines and every association, partnership or corporation not wholly owned by citizens of the Philippines, who or which was actually engaged in the retail business on May 15, 1954.

2. For copies of official records and documents or other papers related to the filing of the verified statements by the persons, associations, partnerships or corporations mentioned in Section 2 of Republic Act No. 1180, furnished private persons and entities, the schedule of fees authorized to be collected under Executive Order No. 528 dated September 1, 1952, shall be applicable.

Done in the City of Manila, this 29th 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