MALACAÑANG

MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 303

CREATING A COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE COMPLAINTS OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF CARIGARA AND THE CARIGARA FARMERS COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION AGAINST THE LOGGING OPERATIONS OF THE NORTHERN LEYTE CONSOLIDATED TIMBER CORPORATION WITHIN THE PROPOSED CARIGARA WATERSHED RESERVATION

By virtue of the powers vested in me, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby create a committee to investigate the complaints of the Municipal Council of Carigara, Leyte, and the Carigara Farmers Cooperative Association against the logging operations of the Northern Leyte Consolidated Timber Corporation within the proposed Carigara Watershed Reservation to be composed of the following:

Representative of the U.P. College of Forestry
Chairman

Representative of the National Irrigation Administration
Member

Representative of the Bureau of Soils
Member

Representative of the Bureau of Forestry
Member

Representative of the Bureau of Public Highways
Member

The Committee may ask any department, bureau, office, agency or instrumentality of the government for such assistance as it may need in the performance of its functions.

The Committee shall submit its report and recommendation to the President as soon as practicable, together with a draft of proclamation establishing the Carigara Watershed Reservation.

Done in the City of Manila, this 27th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-one.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR

Executive Secretary

Source: Malacañang Records Office

Office of the President of the Philippines. (1971). [Administrative Order Nos. : 264 – 316]. Manila : Malacañang Records Office.