ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 211, August 20, 1956

AMENDING ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 194, DATED APRIL 20, 1956, ENTITLED “ALLOWING GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES TO ACQUIRE LANDS EVEN IN THE PROVINCES WHERE THEY ARE STATIONED.”

Administrative Order No. 194, dated April 20, 1956, is hereby amended to read as follows:

“Pursuant to the powers vested in me by law, I, RAMON MAGSAYSAY, President of the Philippines, do hereby order:

“Officials and employees of the Government may acquire public agricultural lands and lease public pasture lands subject to the limitations of the Public Land Act and in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed and the policies already enunciated by the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, even in the provinces where they are stationed. Previous permission by the Department Secretary concerned shall not be required.

“Administrative Order No. 59, dated January 14, 1938, is hereby modified accordingly.”

Done in the City of Manila, this 20th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-six, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the eleventh.

(Sgd.) RAMON MAGSAYSAY

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) FORTUNATO DE LEON

Executive Secretary