CREATING A COMMITTEE TO EXPROPRIATE THE DAGAT-DAGATAN LAGOON AND ITS ADJACENT AREAS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

WHEREAS, the Housing and Urban Development Team created
under Memorandum Order No. 643, in cooperation with other government
agencies such as the DAP and the PPDO and in consultation with the World
Bank, has identified the Dagat-dagatan lagoon and its adjacent areas as
a permanent relocation site for families affected by the Tondo
Foreshore Urban Renewal Program;

WHEREAS, the Dagat-dagatan lagoon and the adjacent areas are
planned to be developed into a residential area and an
industrial/commercial complex to guarantee the economic upliftment of
the residents in these areas and to provide socio-economic support to
other government plans along its periphery;

WHEREAS, an initial amount of P30 million has been released
to the Bureau of Public Works to start reclamation of the area;

WHEREAS, a large percentage of the areas in Dagat-dagatan
lagoon is owned by private individuals;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, by virtue of the
powers in me vested by the Constitution do hereby decree and order the
creation of a Committee to Expropriate the Dagat-dagatan lagoon and its
adjacent areas;

The Committee shall be composed of the following:

1.		Representative		—Chairman
			Office of the Solicitor General
2.		Gen. Gaudencio V. Tobias		—Vice-Chairman
			National Housing Corporation
3.		Representative		—Member
			Department of National Defense
4.		Representative		—Member
			Bureau of Lands
5.		Representative		—Member
			Department of Agrarian Reform
6.		Representative		—Member
			Land Registration Commission
7.		Representative		—Member
			Bureau of Public Works
8.		Representative		—Member
			Provincial Assessor’s Office, Rizal
9.		Representative		—Member
			Assessor’s Office, Caloocan City
10.		Representative		—Member
			Register of Deeds, Rizal and Caloocan City

The Committee shall have the following functions:

1. To conduct negotiations with the Dagat-dagatan property
   owners.
2. To secure offers from the owners for the properties involved and
   deliberate upon such offers.
3. To recommend to the Executive Secretary the manners
   of payment for the properties whose owners are willing to negotiate.
4. To initiate and institute necessary steps to expropriate
   certain private properties in the Dagat-dagatan lagoon not amenable to
   negotiation, according to the approved plans as denned by the Tondo
   Foreshore Urban Renewal Project Team.
5. To subpoena owners or their representatives to appear before
   the Committee whenever necessary.
6. To request any representative of any government agency to its
   instrumentalities to attend the Committee hearings or secure any
   relevant materials from them for the furtherance of the Committee’s
   objectives.

The Committee shall submit its report to the Executive Secretary
within forty-five (45) days upon effectivity of this order.

Done in the City of Manila, this 30th day of October, in the
year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-four.