Paragraph one of Executive Order numbered three hundred and eighty-two, dated December fifteen, nineteen hundred and forty-one, is hereby amended to read as follows:

(1) The Emergency Control Administrator may, at any time, order the commandeering of all food, fuel, building materials, and other articles or commodities of prime necessity for the purpose of preventing, locally or generally, scarcity, hoarding and injurious speculation affecting the supply, distribution and movement of such articles or commodities. Any and all commodities so commandeered shall be by him sold, distributed, or otherwise disposed of to the public through such persons, natural or juridical, agencies or instrumentalities, official or otherwise, as in his judgment may serve the best interests of the consuming public. The Emergency Control Administrator shall issue the necessary rules and orders for the purpose of enforcing all anti-profiteering laws and orders and of effecting the payment of the goods so commandeered, and the sale, distribution, or disposal thereof to the public.

Done in the Manila this 7th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, 1945, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the tenth.


By the President:
(Sgd.) JOSE S. REYES
Secretary to the President