Administrative Order No. 235, March 18, 1957

CREATING A COMMITTEE TO TAKE CHARGE OF THE FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS AND BURIAL OF THE LATE PRESIDENT RAMON MAGSAYSAY

WHEREAS, our beloved leader, Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, passed away unexpectedly on the seventeenth day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven; and

WHEREAS, it is highly fitting and proper that adequate arrangements be made for the holding of official necrological services and a state funeral for our departed leader, commensurate, with the love, affection, and respect in which he is held by the Filipino people, and with the everlasting debt of gratitude that they owe him;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, CARLOS P. GARCIA, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby create a Committee on Funeral Arrangements and Burial, composed of the following:

Hon. Eulogio Rodriguez, Sr.	Chairman
Hon. Jose B. Laurel, Jr	Member
Hon. Cesar Bengzon	“
Hon. Cipriano P. Primicias	“
Hon. Lorenzo M. Tañada	“
Hon. Eulogio Balao	“
Hon. Arturo M. Tolentino	“
Hon. Eugenio Perez	“
Hon. Fortunato de Leon	“
Hon. Sergio Osmeña, Jr.	“
Mr. Manuel Manahan	“
Mr. Manuel G. Zamora	Secretary

Done in the City of Manila, this 18th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the eleventh.

(Sgd.) CARLOS P. GARCIA

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) FORTUNATO DE LEON

Executive Secretary