For the purpose of attaining more effective enforcement of the customs lows in the Sulu Archipelago and affording to the inhabitants thereof better opportunities and more convenient means of carrying on trade and commerce with the islands of Borneo, Celebes and other parts of the Republic of Indonesia, I, ELPIDIO QUIRINO, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by Section 1145 of the Revised Administrative Code, and upon recommendation of the Secretary of Finance and the Commissioner of Customs, do hereby order:

1. The municipalities of Bongao, Sitankai, Balabac, Taganak, and Cagayan de Sulu in the Sulu Sea are hereby, created and established as subports of entry open to both foreign and coastwise trade under Jolo as the principal port of entry.
   
   
2. The Commissioner of Customs shall assign the necessary customs personnel at those subports and, with the approval of the Secretary of Finance, shall prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the operation thereof.

Done in the City of Manila, this 5th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-two, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the seventh.


By the President:
(SGD.) MARCIANO ROQUE
Acting Executive Secretary