[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 117, January 26, 1968 ]

AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 73 DATED JULY 13, 1967, ENTITLED, œCREATING A SMALL SETTLERS ™ PROTECTION COMMITTEE 



The membership of the Committee created under Executive Order No. 73 dated July 13, 1967, is hereby amended to read as follows:

œThe Governor, Land Authority

Chairman

Undersecretary of Natural Resources or his representative

Member

Associate Commissioner of the Commission on National Integration or his representative

Member

The Chief of Constabulary or his representative

Member

The Director of Forestry or his representative

Member

The Director of Lands or his representative

Member

Agrarian Counsel or his representative

Member

The sixth paragraph of the same order is hereby amended to read as follows:

œA provincial Committee composed of the following:

PC Provincial Commander

Chairman

District Land Officer concerned or his representative

Member

District Forester or his representative

Member

The Provincial Representative concerned, Land Authority

Member

The Area Representative concerned, Commission on National Integration

Member

is created in each province to assist the committee in determining actual occupancy of small settlers. Its findings shall have persuasive effect. The Land Administration Division of the Land Authority shall be the Secretariat of the Committee through which all communications involving conflicting claims between settlers and other claimants shall be coursed for processing. 

Done in the City of Manila, this 26th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight.

(SGD.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:
(SGD.) RAFAEL M. SALAS
Executive Secretary