Memorandum Order No. 258, s. 2007

Signed on July 3, 2007

MALACAÑANG

MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

MEMORANDUM ORDER NO. 258

EXPRESSING CONCURRENCE AND RATIFICATION IN THE DEPUTATION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND OTHER CONCERNED AGENCIES OF THE GOVERNMENT, AS EMBODIES IN COMELEC RESOLUTION NOS. 8158 AND 8157, BOTH PROMULGATED 08 JUNE 2007, IN CONNECTION WITH THE JUNE 23, 2007 PLEBISCITE TO RATIFY THE CONVERSION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF TABUK IN THE PROVINCE OF KALINGA INTO A COMPONENT CITY TO BE KNOWN AS THE CITY OF TABUK, PURSUANT TO REPUBLIC ACT 9404.

Pursuant to Section 2, (4), Article IX (C) of the Constitution, I, GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO, President of the Republic of the Philippines, do hereby concur with Resolution Nos. 8158 and 8157 of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC), both promulgated 08 June 2007, deputing the Department of Education (DepEd); Department of Public Works sod Highways (DPWH); Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), including their secretaries; National Police Commission including its Chairman; and the Philippine National Police (PNP), including its Chief and all the officers and men under him in the Province of Kalinga, for the purpose of ensuring free, orderly, honest, peaceful and credible conduct of the June 23, 2007 plebiscite to ratify the conversion of the Municipality of Tabuk in the Province of Kalinga into a component city to be known as the City of Tabuk, pursuant to Republic Act No. 9404.

The foregoing national and local officiate and employees, law enforcement agencies and other instrumentalities of the government, are hereby directed to coordinate and cooperate with the Commission on Elections in the performance of their duties and functions.

This Memorandum Order shall take effect immediately.

DONE, in the City of Manila, this 3^rd day of July in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Seven.

(Sgd.) GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO

By the President:

(SGD.) EDUARDO R. ERMITA

Executive Secretary

Source: Official Gazette