There being an urgent necessity of taking effective measures to combat lawlessness, disorder and violence in certain troubled areas of Luzon, and of coordinating and placing under one command all operations against dissident elements therein, I, ELPIDIO QUIRINO, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby place all Philippine Constabulary units presently stationed in all provinces of the Island of Luzon under the operational control of the Commanding General, Armed Forces of the Philippines, effective April 1, 1950, and for the duration of the present disturbed condition of peace and order in said area.

Done in the City of Baguio this 1st day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fourth.


By the President:

(Sgd.) TEODORO EVANGELISTA
Executive Secretary