ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 4, July 19, 1946
CREATING AN INTERDEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE TO TAKE CHARGE OF REQUESTS FOR THE ALLOCATION OF QUOTAS FOR FOOD THAT MAY BE OBTAINED BY THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES FROM THE INTERNA…
WHEREAS, it is necessary that such requests should be based upon a coordinated data gathered from government as well as private sources;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, MANUEL ROXAS, President of the Philippines, do hereby create a committee to be composed of:
The Director General, PRRA, Chairman
The Commissioner of the Budget, Member;
The Under-secretary of Agriculture and Commerce, Member;
The Under-secretary of Public Works and Communications, Member;
The Manager, NARIC, Member; and
The Manager, National Trading Corporation, Member
to receive all requests from the different offices, agencies, and instrumentalities of the Government as well as from private persons, agencies and entities regarding the national requirements for food and for building materials, tools for the mechanic trades, and machinery and equipment of all kinds; to determine the need, reasonableness, and urgency of these requests; and to endorse the same, together with its recommendations, to the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, who shall make the necessary representation on these matters to the International Emergency Food Council and the International Commodity Division of the United States Department of Commerce on behalf of the Republic of the Philippines.
Effective today, no office, agency or instrumentality of the Government shall make direct requests to the International Emergency Food Council or the International Commodity Division of the United States Department of Commerce for the allocation of quotas for food and other articles and materials for the Philippines,
Done at the City of Manila, this 19th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-six, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the first.
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) EMILIO ABELLO
Chief of the Executive Office