Preamble
WHEREAS, the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, a non-profit, non-stock organization with headquarters in New York, is engaged in a program of job training to increase economic productivity, education to eliminate illiteracy, the improvement of health and environmental sanitation, and the training of the rural people in the assumption of civil responsibility; WHEREAS, the extension of the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction activities to the Philippines has enhanced the social well-being and economic stability of the country and its people consistent with the existing policies of the Republic; NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested by the Constitution, do hereby decree and order that: