In order to encourage and recognize outstanding, meritorious, and exemplary acts or records of honesty and integrity as a creed of life, and thereby strengthen the moral foundations of the nation, I, Diosdado Macapagal, President of the Philippines, pursuant to the powers vested in me by law, do hereby institute a special award to be known as the Presidential Citation for Honesty and Integrity.

1. The Presidential Citation for Honesty and Integrity shall be conferred upon any individual who has performed acts or established records demonstrating his possession of honesty and integrity as a creed of life.

2. The Presidential Citation for Honesty and Integrity will be a parchment diploma.

3. The Philippines Heraldry Committee shall prepare the design of the diploma and the criteria for its award.

Done in the City of Manila, this 12th day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the sixteenth.

(Sgd.) DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL
President of the Philippines

By the President:
(Sgd.) AMELITO R. MUTUC
Executive Secretary