WHEREAS, pursuant to the revised terms of the Interim Salvage Agreement between the Republic of the Philippines and Japan, the Philippine Government has committed itself to provide the necessary facilities and such other measures as may be needed for the protection of the life and property of the Japanese salvagors;

WHEREAS, the Cabinet in its meeting on July 13, 1955, approved the creation of a working committee to assist the National Shipyards and Steel Corporation in providing such facilities and/or enforcing such measures; and

WHEREAS, to facilitate the salvage work and to insure the maximum safety of the Japanese salvage teams, the working committee has recommended that all the living and operational quarters and areas assigned to them in Manila, Cavite, Cebu, and elsewhere be declared off limits to civilians and unauthorized persons in order to minimize, if not altogether avoid, unnecessary contacts, and thereby prevent any possible untoward incident;

NOW, THEREFORE, pursuant to the authority vested in me by law, I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, do hereby order that hereafter the living and operational quarters and areas assigned to the Japanese salvage teams in Manila, Cavite, Cebu, and elsewhere in the Philippines are restricted or off limits to all civilians and unauthorized persons for the entire duration of the salvage operations.

Done in the City of Manila, this 23rd day of September, 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.) FRED RUIZ CASTRO
Executive Secretary