EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 118, June 22, 1955

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 118, June 22, 1955 ]

CREATING A COMMITTEE TO SCREEN AND AID DESERVING SQUATTERS AND NEW SETTLERS IN ORIENTAL MINDORO

For the purpose of screening the squatters and would-be settlers in Oriental Mindoro to determine who are deserving of assistance in the allocation of lots in subdivisions of the Bureau of Lands, a committee is hereby created composed of the following:

1. Mr. Antonio Pañgilinan District Land Officer

2. Mr. Mamerto M. Villanueva District Forester

3. Major Mariano Tumaliuan Provincial Commander

4. Mr. Antonio Adriatico Representing the Provincial Government of Oriental Mindoro

5. Mr. Emiliano O. Ozaeta Superintendent of NARRA Project, Oriental Mindoro

6. Mr. Zacarias Umali Chairman, Provincial Agricultural Council

7. Mr. Pedro Abelgas Calapan Rotary Club

8. Mrs. Candida Nable Calapan Women’s Club

9. Miss Esperanza Vejilla Social Worker in-charge

The committee shall assist in the allocation of public lands to landless people. For this purpose, it shall make a census of squatters in the province and a census of new settlers who have not been able to locate lands for their occupation. It shall also keep an up-to-date list of available public lands in the different parts of the province. To facilitate the allocation of lots to deserving squatters and new settlers, the District Land Officer of Oriental Mindoro shall give preference to persons recommended by the committee.

The committee may call upon any department, bureau, office, agency, or instrumentality of the Government for assistance in the accomplishment of its mission and shall render periodic reports of its activities to the President of the Philippines.

This Order shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 22nd day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the ninth.

(Sgd.) RAMON MAGSAYSAY President of the Philippines

By the President: (Sgd.) MARIANO YENKO, JR. Assistant Executive Secretary