Pursuant to the powers vested in me by Republic Act No. 997, as amended by Republic Act No. 1241, I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, do hereby amend section 38 of Executive Order No. 119, dated July 1, 1955, to read as follows:

œSEC. 38. Administrative actions required by Reorganization Plan No. 10 and by this Executive Order shall be effected within 120 days from the date of effectivity of the Order: Provided, That sections 32 to 37 hereof shall not take effect pending the adoption of the Reorganization Plans and Implementing Details for the Department of Finance, but in no case beyond June 30, 1956. 

This Order shall be deemed to have taken effect as of July 1, 1955.

Done in the City of Manila, this 24th 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