WHEREAS, Rogelio L. Domingo and Antonio E. Dayao, agents of
the National Bureau of Investigation, died while in the performance of
their duties in connection with the relentless and all-out campaign of
the Government against the illegal traffic in narcotics;
WHEREAS, although the death of the two devoted NBI agents
cannot be compensated in terms of money, a grant of gratuity by the
Government is a modest token of recognition to their supreme sacrifice
in lighting drug addiction in the Philippines, and one way of helping
the heirs for the loss of their breadwinners; and
WHEREAS, there was pending in the defunct Congress of the
Philippines House Bill No. 2839 appropriating the same amount as
gratuity to the heirs of the fallen agents;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested 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, as amended, do hereby order and
decree the payment, out of any funds in the National Treasury not
otherwise appropriated, of forty thousand pesos (P40,000) as gratuity to
the heirs of Rogelio L. Domingo and Antonio E. Dayao, both NBI agents,
to be apportioned as follows: twenty thousand pesos (P20,000) to the
heirs of Rogelio Lavastida Domingo and twenty thousand pesos (P20,000)
to the heirs of Antonio Eslao Dayao. The distribution of the gratuity
shall be in accordance with the provisions of the Civil Code of the
Philippines.
This Decree shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila, this 2nd day of February, in the
year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-four.
(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President
Republic of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Executive Secretary