Administrative Order No. 265, April 7, 1958

CREATING A COMMITTEE ON SULU AFFAIRS

By virtue of the powers vested in me by law, I, CARLOS P. GARCIA, President of the Philippines, do hereby create a committee on Sulu affairs composed of the following:

Representative from the Office of the President	Chairman
Representative from the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources	Member
Representative from the Department of National Defense	Member
Representative from the Department of Public Works and Communications	Member
Representative from the Local Governments	Member
Representative from the Agricultural Credit and Cooperative Administration	Member
Representative of the Presidential Assistant on Community Development	Member
Representative of the Special Assistant to the President on Performance and Efficiency	Secretary

The committee shall perform the following functions:

1. To make a comprehensive survey of the situation of Sulu archipelago.

2. To sit and confer with representative leaders of Sulu (political, economic, social, religious).

3. To work out a Master Plan on Sulu Affairs.

The committee is hereby authorized to call upon any department, bureau, office, agency or instrumentality of the government, including government-owned or controlled corporations, for such assistance or information as it may need in the performance of its functions.

The committee shall submit its report and recommendations to the President within the shortest time possible.

Done in the City of Manila, this 7th day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the twelfth.

(Sgd.) CARLOS P. GARCIA

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JUAN C. PAJO

Executive Secretary