This is an administrative case against Mr. Ramon Dado, Jr., Provincial Treasurer of Abra, for alleged irregularities committed by him in the acquisition of printed forms during his incumbency as city treasurer of Legaspi.

It appears that in violation of existing regulations respondent acquired outside the Bureau of Printing printed forms some of which far exceeded the requirements of the service for six months.

By way of explanation, respondent states that the forms were purchased outside the Bureau of Printing because they were not then available in said office and there was urgent need therefor. He attributes the excessive purchase to his ignorance of the regulations because he had been out of the treasury service for more than two years. His explanation is not wholly satisfactory.

In view, however, of the total absence of bad faith on the part of respondent whose explanation rings with sincerity and the circumstances surrounding the acquisition, I am inclined to take a more lenient attitude toward his case.

Wherefore, respondent Ramon Dado, Jr., is hereby fined in an amount equivalent to his salary for five days with a warning that commission of similar irregularity in the future will be dealt with more severely.

Done in the City of Manila, this 23rd day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-three, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the eighth.


By the President:

(Sgd.) MARCIANO ROQUE
Acting Executive Secretary