EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 144 - AUTHORIZING THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE PHILIPPINE CHARITY SWEEPSTAKES OFFICE TO ORDER THE PRINTING OF SWEEPSTAKES TICKETS IN A PRIVATE PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT OF GOOD STANDING

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 144, June 14, 1948 ]

AUTHORIZING THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE PHILIPPINE CHARITY SWEEPSTAKES OFFICE TO ORDER THE PRINTING OF SWEEPSTAKES TICKETS IN A PRIVATE PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT OF GOOD STANDING

In view of the recent destruction of the Bureau of Printing plant which, under section 6 of Act No. 4130, undertakes the printing of sweepstakes tickets, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, do hereby authorize the Board of Directors of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office to order the printing of sweepstakes tickets in a private printing establishment of good standing until such time as the Bureau of Printing plant is rehabilitated and can again undertake the printing of said tickets.

Done in the City of Manila, this 14th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the second.

(SGD.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO President of the Philippines

By the President: (SGD.) EMILIO ABELLO Executive Secretary