Administrative Order No. 2, December 31, 1961

WITHDRAWING, RECALLING, AND DECLARING WITHOUT EFFECT ALL AD INTERIM APPOINTMENTS EXTENDED OR RELEASED BY PRESIDENT CARLOS P. GARCIA AFTER DECEMBER 13, 1961

WHEREAS, ad interim appointments were extended and released by President CARLOS P. GARCIA after the joint session of Congress that ended on December 13, 1961;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL, President of the Philippines, pursuant to the authority vested in me by law, do hereby withdraw and recall, and declare without any further effect, all the said appointments and all communications relative thereto, including those to the defunct Commission on Appointments.

Done in the City of Manila, this 31st day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-one, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the sixteenth.

(Sgd.) DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) AMELITO R. MUTUC

Executive Secretary