TO:	Director General Gerardo P. Sicat National Economic and. development Authority

In support of the Masagana 99 rice program of the Government, you are hereby ordered to release immediately the amount of P77.5 million to the Central Bank of the Philippines to support the loan operations of the rural banks and the Philippine National Bank. Strict compliance with this Letter of Instruction is desired.

Done in the City of Manila, this 25th day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-three.