ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 55, August 16, 1954

CREATING A COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE CLAIM OF THE NATIVES OF THE CITY OF BAGUIO FOR EXCLUSION OF THE AREAS CLAIMED BY THEM FROM THE BAGUIO TOWNSITE RESERVATION

A Committee is hereby created, composed of the following:

1. The Register of Deeds of the City of Baguio ...................................................	Chairman
2. One representative of the Bureau of Forestry .................................................	Member
3. One representative of the Bureau of Lands ....................................................	Member

to study the claims of the native inhabitants of the City of Baguio for the segregation from the Baguio Townsite Reservation of the various parcels of land respectively occupied and claimed by them, with a view to determining whether it is in the public interest that their landholdings be segregated from the Baguio Townsite Reservation and open to disposition under the Public Land Act.

The Committee 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 or evidence relevant to its task. It is also authorized to call upon any department, bureau, office, agency or instrumentality of the Government 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.

This Committee shall submit its report and recommendations within the shortest time possible.

Done in the City of Manila, this 16th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the ninth.

(Sgd.) RAMON MAGSAYSAY

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) FRED RUIZ CASTRO

Executive Secretary