By virtue of the powers vested in me by law, and in order to provide for a greater concentration of military effort in suppressing lawlessness, disorder and violence in certain troubled areas of the Philippines. I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, do hereby order:

1. Five thousand officers and enlisted men of the Philippine Constabulary, including their individual equipment and supplies, and a proportionate share of the organizational equipment of the whole Philippine Constabulary Command, are hereby transferred to the Philippine Ground Force. Such transfer shall be effected individually and/or by units and as the Commanding General, Armed Forces of the Philippines, may direct.
   
   
2. All sums appropriated under Republic Act No. 563 for the pay and allowances of personnel transferred pursuant to this Order are hereby transferred to the corresponding appropriations for the Philippine Ground Force.
   
   
3. Other adjustments in the current appropriation of the Armed Forces of the Philippines shall be made by the Secretary of National Defense with the approval of the President.

This Order shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 25th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fifth.


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