EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 461 - AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDERS NUMBERED FOUR HUNDRED FORTY-SEVEN, FOUR HUNDRED FORTY-NINE, FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE AND FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY-TWO

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 461, July 27, 1951 ]

AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDERS NUMBERED FOUR HUNDRED FORTY-SEVEN, FOUR HUNDRED FORTY-NINE, FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE AND FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY-TWO

By virtue of the powers vested in me by Section 3 of Republic Act No. 509, entitled “An Act declaring national policy, authorizing the President of the Philippines for a limited period to fix ceiling prices of commodities and to promulgate rules, and regulations regarding prices of commodities to effectuate such policy, and authorizing the appropriation of a certain sum for the purpose,” I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, do hereby order:

SECTION 1. Section 1 of Executive Order No. 447, dated June 9, 1951, is hereby amended by fixing the retailer’s price of Mello Cup Roasted Ground Coffee at P3.28.

SEC. 2. Section 1 of Executive Order No. 449, dated June 9, 1951, is hereby amended by fixing the retailer’s price of “Peco”, Dixon Lead Pencil at P0.06; of “Zero”, Eberhard Faber Pencil at JP0.06; of Manila Paper, size 36" by 48"—80 lbs.—480 sheets, at P0.06.

SEC. 3. Section 1 of Executive Order No. 451, dated June 9, 1951, is hereby amended by fixing the retailer’s price of Highway Type Truck & Bus Tires, size 10.00-22, 12 ply rating at P388 and changing the ply rating of Farm Tractor Tires-Ribbed Front Tires, size 5.50-16, from 4 to 6.

SEC. 4. Section 1 of Executive Order No. 452, dated June 9, 1951, is hereby amended by fixing the wholesaler’s price and the retailer’s price of Number Stories—Book Two at P3.45 and P3.98, respectively.

SEC. 5. This Order shall take effect as of June 9, 1951.

Done in the City of Manila, this 27th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the sixth.

(SGD.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO President of the Philippines

By the President: (SGD.) MARCIANO ROQUE Acting Assistant Executive Secretary