WHEREAS, the late Reverend G. Crisostomo donated the Philippine Government certain properties consisting mostly of residential lands located in the municipalities of Cabanatuan and Santa Rosa, Nueva Ecija;

WHEREAS, under a Memorandum Order of Governor General Wood the administration of said estate was transferred from the office of the Attorney General to the Bureau of Lands;

WHEREAS, by Executive Order No. 191 of the President of the Philippines, dated March 2, 1939, the Rural Progress Administration was created among the powers of which is the acquisition and management of homesites;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, MANUEL ROXAS, President of the Philippines, do hereby order the transfer of the administration of all the properties pertaining to the Reverend G. Crisostomo Estate from the Bureau of Lands to the Rural Progress Administration.

Done at the City of Manila, this 19th day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the first.


By the President:

(Sgd.) EMILIO ABELLO
Chief of the Executive Office