Appropriations for the Operation of Task Force on Human Settlement

September 18, 1973

PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 297

APPROPRIATING THE AMOUNT OF FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND PESOS FOR THE OPERATION OF THE TASK FORCE ON HUMAN SETTLEMENT

WHEREAS, under Executive Order No. 419 dated September 19, 1973, a Task Force on Human Settlements was created to conduct a study on the nature, policy issues and strategies related to a comprehensive and integrative human settlement program in this country; and

WHEREAS, there is a need to appropriate the necessary amount to carry out the purposes and objectives of the Task Force on Human Settlement;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution as Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081 dated September 21, 1972, and General Order No. 1 dated September 22, 1972, do hereby order and decree: cd i

SECTION 1. The sum of five hundred thousand pesos is hereby appropriated as operating funds of the Task Force on Human Settlements out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated. To be taken from the excess Income Tax.

SECTION 2. This Decree shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 18th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Three.