WHEREAS, the Office of the Tanodbayan was created under Presidential Decree No. 1487, as amended by Presidential Decree Nos. 1607 and 1630, to carry into
effect the constitutional mandate of providing the people a machinery through which they may petition the Government for redress of grievances and as a means to
promote higher standards of integrity and efficiency in the government service;

WHEREAS, it is necessary to keep the personnel morale high in the Tanodbayan and in that regard, to align the salaries of lawyers and special investigators in the
Office of the Tanodbayan with those lawyers, investigators and agents in the Ministry of Justice who were granted special salary increases under Presidential Decree
No. 1726;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order and
direct:

Section 1. SALARY INCREASES - The following officials and employees of the Office of the Tanodbayan shall receive their annual salaries in accordance with the
following rates:

Section 2. The procedures, rules and regulations needed to carry out this Executive Order shall be formulated and issued by the Minister of the Budget.

Section 3. The amounts necessary to cover the salary increases herein provided shall be drawn from salary lapses and other personal services savings of the Office of
the Tanodbayan.

Section 4. The salary increases herein provided shall be effective March 1, 1981.

Done in the City of Manila, this 17th day of November in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-one.


By the President:

(SGD.) JOAQUIN T. VENUS, JR.
Presidential Assistant