In accordance with the provisions of Article 3 of Title II of the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Government of the United States of America on the construction and equipping of Hospitals for Veterans and the provision of medical care and the treatment of Veterans by the Government of the Philippines, and the furnishing of grants-in-aid thereof by the Government of the United States of America dated June 7, 1949, I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, do hereby give the Secretary of National Defense full authority to administer, for the Government of the Republic of the Philippines, all matters relating to the construction and equipping of hospitals for veterans and the provision of medical care and treatment for veterans, within the purview of Public Law 865, 80th United States Congress, and to appoint outstanding medical practitioners, who are not on the regular staff of the Veterans Memorial Hospital, as consultants thereof. The consultants so appointed shall serve under such regulations as may be promulgated by the Secretary of National Defense and shall receive compensation at rates, designated by him and concurred in by the Manager, United States Veterans Administration, Manila Office. This order shall take effect as of March 13, 1955.

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