WHEREAS, according to the provisions of paragraph 3, Article I of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation, any original member of the United Nations may become a member of said organisation by communicating to the Director-General of the International Labour Office its formal acceptance of the obligations of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation;

WHEREAS, the Government of the Republic of the Philippines is an original member of the United Nations, and as such is entitled to membership of the International Labour Organisation in accordance with the procedure laid down in the aforecited provisions of the Constitution;

WHEREAS, the Senate of the Philippines, by virtue of its Resolution No. 44 adopted on March 19, 1948, has given its concurrence to the acceptance for the Government of the Republic of the Philippines of membership in the International Labour Organisation pursuant to the provisions of paragraph 3, Article I of the Constitution of said Organisation, and of the obligations of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation Instrument of Amendment, 1946;

NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, do hereby proclaim and make public, in pursuance of the aforesaid concurrence of the Senate of the Philippines, the acceptance of membership for the Government of the Republic of the Philippines in the International Labour Organisation in accordance with paragraph 3, Article I of the Constitution of the said organisation and of the obligations of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation Instrument of Amendment, 1946, a certified copy of which is hereto annexed, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the Republic of the Philippines and the citizens thereof.

IN TESTIMONY 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 19th day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the second.

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:
EMILIO ABELLO
Executive Secretary