Administrative Order No. 256, November 27, 1957

ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER CREATING A COMMITTEE TO TAKE CHARGE OF THE FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS AND BURIAL OF THE HONORABLE FRANCIS BURTON HARRISON, FORMER GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF THE PHILIPPINES

WHEREAS, the Honorable Francis Burton Harrison, former Governor-General of the Philippines, died on Thursday November 21, 1957, at the Hunterdon Medical Center, Flemington, New Jersey, U.S.A.;

WHEREAS, the deceased former Governor-General expressed his wish to be buried in the Philippines;

WHEREAS, former Governor-General Francis Burton Harrison was made a citizen of the Philippines with all the rights, duties, privileges, and prerogatives of Filipino citizenship by virtue of Commonwealth Act No. 79 enacted by the First National Assembly on October 26, 1936, in recognition of his “very deep interest in the welfare of the Filipino people and profund sympathy for their aspirations for independence”; and

WHEREAS, it is but fitting and proper that adequate arrangements be made for the holding of official necrological services and a state funeral for the former Governor-General, in keeping with the people's love and respect for him and in recognition of his services to our people and country in hastening the Filipinization of the Philippine Government and accelerating eventual independence.

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. Jesus Vargas	Chairman
Hon. Florencio Moreno	Member
Hon. Francisco Delgado	Member
Hon. Miguel Cuenco	Member
Hon. Ferdinand Marcos	Member
Hon. Gregorio Licaros	Member
Mr. Aguinaldo Maaba	Secretary

Done in the City of Manila, this 27th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the twelfth.

(Sgd.) CARLOS P. GARCIA

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) FORTUNATO DE LEON

Executive Secretary