WHEREAS, the Talisay-Silay Milling Co., Inc., has been unable to arrive at a milling agreement with the majority of planters affiliated with it and has refused to mill, or to continue to mill, as the case may be, the sugar cane of such planters in the absence of such agreement;

WHEREAS, the Talisay-Silay Milling Co., Inc., has been at a milling agreement was the disregard for the benefits that would be due the laborers from an increase in the sharing between miller and planter; and

WHEREAS, the prevention, interruption, or cessation of the milling of sugar by the said central shall lead to a deficiency or delinquency in the filling of the entire national quota for the current year;

NOW, THEREFORE, I Diosdado Macapagal, President of the Philippines, pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 4 of Republic Act No. 809, do hereby declare that in the interest of the national welfare the Government of the Philippines has taken over the central concerned, and thereupon the central shall be operated in the name and under the authority of the Government by an administrator to be appointed in the court proceedings provided for in section 7 of said Act.

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 1st day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-three.

DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL
President of the Philippines

By the President:
SALVADOR L. MARI O
Executive Secretary