AUTHORIZING THE PHILIPPINE AMERICAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION TO CONDUCT A NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL AND FUND CAMPAIGN DURING THE PERIOD FROM FEBRUARY 1, 1962, TO JULY 31, 1963

WHEREAS, the promotion and advancement of the
cultural manifestations of a people have always been considered, remarkable
concomitants of civilization;

WHEREAS, the dissemination of the cultural
endeavors and manifestations of a people have been accepted significant tools
in the promotion of international understanding;

WHEREAS, the Philippine American Cultural
Foundation is an expression of a mutual desire for better understanding between
the people of the United States and the people of the Philippines;

WHEREAS, the Foundation is dedicated to the goal
of developing, preserving, and enriching Philippine culture and the
dissemination of the knowledge thereof, and the strengthening of the ties of
friendship between the United States and the Philippines;

WHEREAS, the Foundation proposes to engage in
cultural, academic, and other programs designed to advance Philippine cultural
endeavors and to enhance mutual understanding between the people of the United
States and the Republic of the Philippines;

WHEREAS, in the furtherance of all the above
objectives the Foundation proposes to construct, operate, and maintain a
cultural center;

WHEREAS, the Foundation governed by the Board of
Trustees composed of six Filipinos and five Americans under the chairmanship of
a Filipino, is proposing to construct a two-million-five-hundred-thousand pesos
(P2,500,000.00) Cultural Center in the Philippines to be financed by a three
million-twenty-one-thousand-nine-hundred-forty six peso (P3,021,946.00)
donation from the United States of American;

WHEREAS, in order to finance the operating and
maintenance expenses of the proposed cultural center of the Philippine American
Cultural Foundation in order to achieve its objectives, an endowment fund is
proposed to be raised through a nationwide educational and fund campaign;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Diosdado Macapagal, President
of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby
authorize the Philippine American Cultural Foundation to conduct a national
educational and fund campaign during the period from February 1, 1962, to July
31, 1963. I call upon all citizens and residents of the Philippines,
irrespective of nationality or creed, to assist in this drive of giving
generously of their means so that Ave may help foster the promotion of our
culture as a people. I authorize all the treasurers of provincial, city, and
municipal governments, as well as school officials to accept for the Philippine
American Cultural Foundation, voluntary contributions and donations and to
issue official receipts therefor;

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 1st day of
February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the sixteenth.

DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL
President of the Philippines

By the President:

AMELITO R. MUTUC
Executive Secretary

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