WHEREAS, according to the monthly reports of the Insular Collector of Customs, Philippine cordage producers and manufacturers, during the twelve-month period beginning May first, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, did not make any shipment to the United States in excess of the amount allotted to them during the aforementioned period by Executive Orders Numbered Thirty-six and Sixty-two, dated June third, nineteen hundred and thirty-six and November fourth, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, respectively;

Now, therefore, pursuant to the authority vested in me by Public Act Numbered One hundred thirty-seven of the Seventy-fourth Congress, approved June fourteenth, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, entitled œAn Act to protect American and Philippine labor and to preserve an essential industry, and for the purposes,  it is hereby ordered that:

1. The effective quota of 6,000,000 pounds of Philippine cordage which may enter the United States during the twelve-month period beginning May first, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, shall be allocated among the producers and manufacturers thereof in the following manner:

	Pounds
Elizalde Rope Factory, Inc.	3,805,255
Johnson-Pickett Rope Co.	2,080,491
Manila Cordage Co.	86,137
General Manufacturing	28,117
Total	6,000,000

2. Shipments made previous to May first, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, shall be allowed on condition that they shall arrive in any part of Continental United States on or May first, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven.

Done at the City of New York, U. S. A. (for the city of Manila), this fourteenth day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the second.


By the President:

(Sgd.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO
Secretary of the Interior