WHEREAS, the military operations from 1950 to 1955 against dissidents for the restoration of peace and order in the province of Sulu resulted in the failure of crops and other losses to real property owners in the municipal district of Luuk, same province;

NOW, THEREFORE, and the public interest so requiring, I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by section 53 of Commonwealth Act No. 470, as amended by Commonwealth Act No. 534, do hereby remit the taxes and penalties on all real properties which have not yet been sold at public auction for tax delinquency, located in the municipal district of Luuk, province of Sulu, due from 1950 to 1955, inclusive.

Done in the City of Manila, this 11th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-six, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the tenth.

(Sgd.) RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:
(Sgd.) FORTUNATO DE LEON
Acting Executive Secretary