Administrative Order No. 276, August 8, 1958

AMENDING ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 268 DATED APRIL 28, 1958, ENTITLED “CREATING A FACT-FINDING COMMITTEE TO RECOMMEND WAYS AND MEANS OF EFFECTING GOOD ADMINISTRATION, PERFORMANCE AND EFFICIENCY OF THE BUREAU OF CUSTOMS”

By virtue of the powers vested in me by law, I, CARLOS P. GARCIA, President of the Philippines, do hereby order:

The committee created in Administrative Order No. 268 dated April 28, 1958, is hereby granted all the powers of an investigating committee under Sections 71 and 580 of the Revised Administrative Code, including the power to summon witnesses, administer oaths, and take testimony of evidence relevant to the investigation. It. is also 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 require in the performance of its functions, and for this purpose, it shall have access to, and the right to examine, any books, documents, papers or records thereof, subject to the limitations provided by law.

Administrative Order No. 268 dated April 28, 1958, is hereby amended accordingly.

Done in the City of Manila, this 8th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the thirteenth.

(Sgd.) CARLOS P. GARCIA

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JUAN C. PAJO

Executive Secretary