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MOP, Bk 7, v.5, 80
[ ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 38, July 05, 1954 ]
CREATING A COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE AFFAIRS OF THE NATIONAL RICE AND CORN CORPORATION.
Mr. Fortunato de Leon ........................................................................... Chairman Mr. Eugenio Reyes ................................................................................ Member Major Francisco Jimenez ........................................................................ Member
The Committee shall give special emphasis to the stock of rice of the corporation and shall determine the responsibility for whatever anomalies may have been committed in connection therewith.
For the purpose of the investigation, 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 the investigation. The Committee is authorized to call upon any department, bureau, office, agency or instrumentality of the Government for such information as it may require in the performance of its work, and, for the purpose of securing such information, it shall have access to, and the right to examine, any books, documents, papers, or records thereof.
The Committee shall submit its report and recommendations to the President of the Philippines within the shortest time possible.
Done in the City of Manila, this 5th day of July, 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