Proclamation No. 445




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ Proclamation No. 445, September 1, 1965 ] DECLARING THE PERIOD FROM AUGUST 1965 TO JULY 1975 AS PHILIPPINE FORESTRY DEVELOPMENT DECADE. Pursuant to the authority conferred upon me by law, and realizing the need for the people to keep alive an awareness of the importance of our forests and their development and preservation in the sustained socio-economic growth of the country, I, DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL, President of the Philippines, do hereby declare the decade from August 1965 to July 1975 as Philippine Forestry Development Decade. The Committee on Wood Industries Development under the Office of the President as constituted under Executive Order No. 138,c.s., is charged with the additional function and responsibility of drafting and implementing policies intended to make the Forestry Development Decade fruitful and effective. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.1aшphi1 Done in the City of Manila, this 1st day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-five. DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL President of the Philippines By the President: JUAN S. CANCIO Acting Assistant Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation