WHEREAS, our concern for our country ™s future demands that more efforts be devoted to developing our children into good and useful citizens;

WHEREAS, it is necessary to provide the facilities and opportunities to cultivate the talents and other faculties of the potential leaders of our future generation; and

WHEREAS, the Children ™s Museum and Library, Inc., is dedicated to the well-being of our children;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Diosdado Macapagal, President of the Philippines, do hereby authorize the Children ™s Museum and Library, Inc., to conduct a national educational, membership, and fund campaign during the period from February 1 to March 15, 1962. I call upon all citizens and residents of the Philippines, irrespective of nationality or creed, to assist in this humanitarian campaign by giving generously of their means so that we may insure the success of this venture. I authorize government officials and employees, including school authorities and teachers, to accept for the Children ™s Museum and Library, Inc., fund-raising responsibilities and to give it active support and leadership in their respective communities.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

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

DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL
President of the Philippines

By the President:

AMELITO R. MUTUC
Executive Secretary