ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 15, March 17, 1954

CREATING A COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE ALLEGED IRREGULARITIES IN THE PEOPLE’S HOMESITE AND HOUSING CORPORATION.

A Committee is hereby created to investigate alleged irregularities in the People’s Homesite and Housing Corporation, composed of the following:

Mr. Ambrosio T. Dollete	- Chairman
Major Jose G. Lukban	- Member
Solicitor Augusto Luciano	- Member
Dr. Jesus Paredes	- Member

For the purpose of the investigation, the Committee is hereby granted all the powers of an investigating committee under Sections 71 and 580 of the Revised Administrative Code, including the power to summon witnesses, administer oaths, and take testimony or evidence relevant to the investigation. The Committee is also empowered and authorized to call upon any department, bureau, office, agency or instrumentality of the Government for such information as it may require in the performance of its work, and, for the purpose of securing such information, it shall have access to and the right to examine any books, documents, papers, or records thereof.

The Committee shall submit its report and recommendations within fifteen days from the date hereof.

Done in the City of Manila, this 17th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the eighth.

(Sgd.) RAMON MAGSAYSAY

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) FRED RUIZ CASTRO

Executive Secretary