The first sentence of paragraph (1) of Executive Order No. 172, dated October 18, 1938 , is hereby amended to read as follows:

“(1) Provincial boards and city boards or councils may authorize, subject to the approval of the Department Secretaries concerned, those officials whose duties make it necessary or advisable for them to use special means of transportation for the purpose of supervision, inspection, or investigation, to utilize their privately-owned motor vehicles for official purposes and to receive reimbursement for the same at the rate of twenty centavos for each kilometer of travel of official business in the case of automobiles, and fifteen centavos in the case of jeeps x x x x:”

Done at the City of Manila , this 12th day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, and of the Independence of the Philippines , the first.

 

	(Sgd.) MANUEL ROXAS
	President of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) EMILIO ABELLO
Chief of the Executive Office