PROCLAMATION NO. 154, May 02, 1955
PRESCRIBING QUALIFICATIONS IN THE SELECTION OF TRAINEES TO BE CALLED FOR MILITARY TRAINING
Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of
National Defense and pursuant to the provisions of section 55 of the National
Defense Act (Commonwealth Act No. 1), I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of the
Philippines, do hereby require that eligibility for trainee instruction for any
period beginning with the year nineteen hundred and fifty-five be limited to
those registrants who are able-bodied, free from disease, of good moral
character and habits, of average intelligence and who have finished at least
the primary course of instruction in any school of recognized standing. In the
fulfillment of this requirement, the drawing provided for in section 56 of the
National Defense Act shall continue until the desired quota for trainee
instruction in any particular calendar year is filled.
This Proclamation supersedes Proclamation No. 255
dated May 26, 1951.
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 2nd day of May,
in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the ninth.
RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines
By the President:
MARIANO YENKO, JR.
Assistant Executive Secretary