WHEREAS, the 80th Congress of the United States has recently passed Public Law No. 865, otherwise known as the Rogers Act, providing for the care and hospitalization of world war veterans;

WHEREAS, it has become necessary to take steps for the implementation of this Act;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby create and constitute an Advisory Board which shall be composed of the following:

Secretary of National Defense	Chairman
Commissioner of the Budget	Member
Surgeon General, Armed Forces of the Philippines	Member
Chairman, Philippine Veterans Board	Member
Director of Hospitals	Member
Dean of the College of Medicine, University of the Philippines	Member
Director of Public Works	Member

It shall be the duty of the Board to advise the President on the designation of the government agency to handle the implementation of the Rogers Act; to make recommendations on how to take care of the disabled veterans with the least possible delay; to recommend sites for the location of the different veterans ™ hospitals and the priority of their construction; to recommend type buildings for veterans ™ hospital; and to advise the President on the administration of said hospitals.

Done in the City of Manila, this 4th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the third.


By the President:

(Sgd.) EMILIO ABELLO
Executive Secretary