By virtue of the authority vested in me under the Constitution and under Commonwealth Act Numbered Four hundred ninety-eight, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, do hereby establish a board, to be known as the Emergency Control Board, to be composed of the Honorable Benigno S. Aquino, Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce, as Chairman; the Honorable Jorge B. Vargas, Secretary to the President, as Vice-Chairman; and the Honorable Rafael E. Alunan, Secretary of the Interior, the Honorable Manuel Rosas, Secretary of Finance, the Honorable Jose Abad Santos, Secretary of Justice, the Honorable Mariano J. Cuenco, Secretary of Public Works and Communications, and the Honorable Jose Avelino, Secretary of Labor, as members. The Honorable Benito Razon will act as Executive Officer of the Board.

The Board is hereby authorized and directed to formulate, for the consideration and approval of the President, the policies and the rules and regulations necessary to carry out the purposes of the aforesaid Commonwealth Act Numbered Four hundred ninety-eight.

Done at the City of Manila, this second day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the fourth.


By the President:

JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President