CALLING THE CONGRESS OF THE PHILIPPINES TO A SPECIAL SESSION

Whereas, the public interest requires that the
Congress of the Philippines be convened in a special session in order to
consider urgent legislative measures;

Now, THEREFORE, I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of
the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do
hereby call the Congress of the Philippines to a special session for such
number of days as may be necessary, but not to exceed thirty days, commencing
at ten o’clock in the morning of the nineteenth day of July, nineteen hundred
and fifty-four, to consider the enactment of the following legislative
measures:

1. An Act appropriating funds for Public Works
and amending Republic Act No. 920.

2. An Act creating the Court of Agrarian
Relations, prescribing its jurisdiction, and establishing its rules and
procedure.

3. An Act to provide for the Civil Defense in
time of war or other National Emergency, creating a National Defense
Administration, and for other purposes.

4. An Act to govern the relation between Landlord
and Tenant on Agricultural Lands under any system of tenancy.

5. An Act authorizing the expenditure during the
period from January first to June thirty, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, of
the income accruing to the general, special, trust and other funds in the
Philippine Treasury during the same period.

6. An Act to amend section 178-A of Act Numbered
2427, otherwise known as the Insurance Act, as amended by Republic Act No. 488,
and to add another section to be known as section 197-A, and for other
purposes.

7. An Act to amend and repeal certain sections of
the Charter of the City of Manila in order to provide for two additional judges
in the Traffic Court and five additional Assistant City Fiscals.

8. An Act to amend Republic Act Numbered Six
hundred and ninety-eight entitled “An Act to limit the importation of Foreign
Leaf tobacco.”

9. An Act appropriating the sum of Three hundred
thousand pesos for the expenses of a Trade Mission to the United States.

10. An Act to demonetize Treasury certificates
and Central Bank notes of over one hundred-peso denominations, and for other
purposes.

11. An Act amending Republic Act Numbered Six
hundred sixty-three entitled “An Act to develop and improve the rice and corn
industries, to stabilize the price of rice and to promote the social and
economic conditions of the people engaged in the production of these staple
foods.”

12. An Act to create the positions of Special
Prosecutors in the Office of the Solicitor General for the purpose of
investigating and prosecuting graft, corruption, abuses and other violations of
laws in the Government and/or Government owned or controlled corporations.

13. An Act to further amend section two of
Republic Act Numbered Six hundred one, as amended by Republic Act Numbered
Eleven seventy five (re special excise tax on foreign exchange).

14. An Act to amend certain sections of Republic
Act Numbered Two hundred ninety-six otherwise known as the Judiciary Act of
1948, as amended, so as to provide for additional branches of the Court of
First Instance, and to authorize a district Judge of First Instance to decide
cases heard and submitted to him for decision even after his appointment to
another district.

15. An Act to amend the title and sections one,
two and three of Republic Act Numbered Six hundred and fifty-seven entitled “An
Act to promote the production of cassava flour, to regulate the importation of
wheat flour and for other purposes” and to regulate the production, manufacture,
sale and distribution of cassava flour and starch, and for other purposes.

All persons entitled to sit as members of the
Congress of the Philippines are requested to take notice of this proclamation.

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 7th day of July,
in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the ninth.

(SGD.) RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:
(SGD.) FRED RUIZ CASTRO
Executive Secretary