The fourth paragraph of Executive Order No. 298 dated August 12, 1940, as inserted by Executive Order No. 146 dated December 27, 1955, is hereby amended to read as follows:

œHowever, highway district engineers, city engineers, or project engineers can make direct purchases with any known company in their respective province, or in nearby provinces, of spare parts for machineries and equipment used in public works which are of the make of the company and at its prices, less the usual discount extended to government offices and another discount for cash purchases, provided that if such purchases exceed P3,000.00 per month, prior authority shall be secured from the Secretary of Public Works and Communications; and, provided, further, that except in cases of urgently needed spare parts for immediate use and not for the purpose of carrying them in stock, the approval of the Auditor General or his authorized representative shall be secured before such direct purchases are made. 

Done in the City of Manila, this 6th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-six, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the eleventh.

(Sgd.) RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

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