Administrative Order No. 335, October 24, 1960

MODIFYING ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 147, DATED OCTOBER 26, 1955, CONCERNING MR. CELSO AVELINO, FORMER CITY ATTORNEY OF CALBAYOG, BY CONSIDERING HIS SEPARATION AS WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO HIS REINSTATEMENT IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE AT THE INITIATIVE OF THE APPOINTING AUTHORITY.

Under Administrative Order No. 147, dated October 26, 1955, Mr. Celso Avelino was removed as city attorney of Calbayog for electioneering, partiality, and ignorance of the law. Upon his request for reconsideration, the Secretary of Justice recommends modification of the order so as to consider him as having resigned without prejudice to reinstatement in the government service except in the prosecution service and in the judiciary.

After considering the period of time that has elapsed since respondents separation from the service, I am inclined to agree with the Secretary of Justice that Mr. Avelino has been sufficiently punished for his misdeeds. Hence the decision may now be modified insofar as his removal constitutes a bar to his reinstatement in the public service.

WHEREFORE, Administrative Order No. 147, dated October 26, 1955, is hereby modified in the sense that Mr. Celso Avelinos removal shall be without prejudice in his reinstatement in the public service, except in the prosecution branch and in the judiciary, at the initiative of the appointing authority.

Done in the City of Manila, this 24th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty, and of the independence of the Philippines, the fifteenth.

(Sgd.) CARLOS P. GARCIA

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) NATALIO P. CASTILLO

Executive Secretary