For the purpose of consolidating under only one management all the activities of the Government pertaining to the acquisition of landed estates, and in the interest of efficiency and economy, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby abolish the Landed Estates Survey Committee, created by Administrative Order Numbered: Forty-nine, dated October seventh, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and transfer its functions and duties to the Rural Progress Administration, created by Executive Order Numbered One hundred ninety-one, dated March second, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine.

Administrative Order Numbered Forty-nine, dated October seventh, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, is hereby accordingly revoked.

Done at the City of Manila, this twenty-fifth day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-one, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the sixth.


By the President:

(Sgd.) JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President