ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 181 CREATING A COMMITTEE TO TAKE CHARGE OF THE FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS AND BURIAL OF FORMER PRESIDENT ELPIDIO QUIRINO. March 01, 1956

WHEREAS, former President ELPIDIO QUIRINO passed away unexpectedly on the twenty-ninth day of February, nineteen hundred and fifty-six; and

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 LEONActing Executive Secretary