Memorandum Circular No. 4




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ Memorandum Circular No. 4, January 12, 1966 ] PROHIBITING DEPARTMENT SECRETARIES AND HEADS OF GOVERNMENT CORPORATIONS FROM ACCEPTING SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS DURING THE FIRST ONE HUNDRED DAYS OF THE CURRENT CALENDAR YEAR. WHEREAS, the Administration is faced with numerous urgent problems concerning the entire gamut of government business which require the undivided and uninterrupted attention and full application to work of all concerned. WHEREFORE, all Secretaries of Departments and chi f. of offices with cabinet rank, including managing heads and chairmen of governing boards of corporations owned or controlled by the government, are hereby prohibited from accepting speaking engagements or other similar engagements that will involve time to prepare therefor and/or draw them away for some time from their work during the first one hundred days of the current calendar year. This order shall take effect immediately.1âшphi1 By authority of the President (SGD.) RAFAEL M. SALAS Executive Secretary Manila, January 12, 1966 The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation