By virtue of the powers vested in me by law, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, do hereby order:

1. Subject to the authorized officer strength prescribed in the schedule of percentages in grade of the several commissioned grades in the Armed Forces of the Philippines, any Reserve Officer ordered into or serving on Active duty may, with his consent, be temporarily appointed to a grade lower than the grade held by him in the Reserve Force and such temporary appointment shall not affect the appointment and grade permanently held by him in the Reserve Force.
   
   
2. Officers temporarily appointed under the preceding paragraph shall, while on tour of active duty in such lower grade, receive the same pay and allowances authorized for officers of corresponding grade in the Regular Force.

Done in the City of Manila, this 19th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the third.


By the President:
(SGD.) TEODORO EVANGELISTA
Executive Secretary