DECLARING THE PERIOD FROM SEPTEMBER 26 TO OCTOBER 2, 1954, AS FOREST CONSERVATION WEEK

WHEREAS, our forest resources are to utmost
importance to the welfare and economic well-being of our people;

WHEREAS, these forest resources constitute a
valuable heritage that must be passed on to those coming after us;

WHEREAS, wanton damage to these resources has
been going on through kaiñgin making and destructive logging practices; and

WHEREAS, it has become necessary to stop such
destruction and to impress upon our people the need of conserving these
resources to the end that the benefits we derive from them and the services
they render us would not only remain unimparied but also made available to
succeeding generations;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of
the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare
the period from September 26 to October 2, 1954, as Forest Conservation Week
and designate the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources to take charge
of, and coordinate, all activities in celebration of the Week.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
and cause the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 6th day of
September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the ninth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:

FRED RUIZ CASTRO
Executive Secretary