MOP, Bk 7, v.5, 320
WHEREAS, it is fitting and proper that adequate arrangements be made for the holding of official necrological services and a state funeral for our former President, commensurate with the people’s love and respect for him with the great debt of gratitude that they owe him;
Now, THEREFORE, I, RAMON MAGSAYSAY, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby create a Committee on Funeral arrangements and Burial, composed of the following:
Exec. Sec. Fortunato de Leon ................................................................... Chairman Senator Fernando Lopez .......................................................................... Member Senator Quintin Paredes ........................................................................... " Speaker Protempore Daniel Romualdez ...................................................... " Secretary Gregorio Hernandez, Jr. ............................................................. " Secretary Eulogio Balao ............................................................................ " Justice Alejo Labrador .............................................................................. " Congressman Eugenio Perez ..................................................................... " Mayor Arsenio H. Lacson .......................................................................... " Governor Pedro Singson-Reyes ................................................................ " Hon. Jose Yulo ........................................................................................ " Hon. Joaquin M. Elizalde ........................................................................... " Hon. Teodoro Evangelista ........................................................................ " Ex-Governor Eliseo Quirino ...................................................................... " Asst. Exec. Sec. Enrique C. Quema ........................................................... " Mr. Manuel G. Zamora .............................................................................. "
Done in the City of Manila, this 1st day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-six, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the tenth.
(Sgd.) RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) FORTUNATO DE LEON
Acting Executive Secretary