By virtue of the powers vested in me by law, I, SERGIO OSME A, President of the Philippines, do hereby authorize and direct the organization, under the Office of the President of the Philippines, of the Philippine Relief and Rehabilitation Administration created by Commonwealth Act 716, effective December 1, 1945.

The Philippine Relief and Rehabilitation Administration shall have all the powers, duties and functions set forth in Commonwealth Act 716.

Effective December 1, 1945, the Emergency Control Administration is hereby abolished, and its functions, activities, funds, equipment and personnel shall be transferred to the Philippine Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. In order to facilitate such transfer, the Auditor General shall help in the immediate liquidation and settlement of the obligations and accounts of the Emergency Control Administration.

In addition to the funds that should be transferred from the Emergency Control Administration, the sum of one million pesos appropriated in Commonwealth Act 716 is hereby made available for the organization and operation of the Philippine Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.

Done at the City of Manila, this 28th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-five, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the eleventh.


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