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PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES UNDER COMMONWEALTH ACT NO.
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Letter of Instruction No. 474, s. 1976

Signed on October 21, 1976

MALACAÑANG
Manila

LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 474

TO: The Secretary of Agrarian Reform

WHEREAS, last year, I ordered that small landowners of tenanted rice/corn lands with areas of less than twenty-four
hectares but above seven hectares shall retain not more than seven hectares of such lands except when they own other
agricultural lands containing more than seven hectares or lands used for residential, commercial, industrial or other urban
purposes from which they derive adequate income to support themselves and their families;

WHEREAS, the Department of Agrarian Reform found that in the course of implementing my directive there are many
landowners of tenanted rice/corn lands with areas of seven hectares or less who also own other agricultural lands
containing more than seven hectares or lands used for residential, commercial, industrial or other urban purposes where
they derive adequate income to support themselves and their families;

WHEREAS, it is therefore necessary to cover said lands under the Land Transfer Program of the government to
emancipate the tenant-farmers therein.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby order the following:

1. You shall undertake to place under the Land Transfer Program of the government pursuant to Presidential Decree No.
27, all tenanted rice/corn lands with areas of seven hectares or less belonging to landowners who own other agricultural
lands of more than seven hectares in aggregate areas or lands used for residential, commercial, industrial or other urban
purposes from which they derive adequate income to support themselves and their families.

2. Landowners who may choose to be paid the cost of their lands by the Land Bank of the Philippines shall be paid in
accordance with the mode of payment provided in Letter of Instructions No. 273 dated May 7, 1973.

Done in the City of Manila, this 21st day of October in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-six.

(SGD.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President of the Philippines
Signed on December 7, 1972

MALACAÑANG
MANILA

Letter of Instruction No. 46

TO: Secretary Conrado Estrella

  Department of Agrarian Reform

In the implementation of the Government’s Land Reform Program pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 27, you are
required to —

1. Immediately set up pilot projects in the most strategic areas, if possible in all the regions where tenancy has been
generating social unrest.

If possible, set up one pilot projects in each of the provinces in Central Luzon — Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Tarlac,
Bulacan.

Prepare the program for these pilot projects, especially the funding requirements for the administrative units, and the
credit needs of the farmers and other support services such as roads and other infrastructures.

2. In the implementation of the program, the needs of the farmers for home lots should not be overlooked, and appropriate
measures should be taken along this line.

It is necessary also for the Government at this time to pinpoint the areas needed for the expansion of urban communities,
for housing and for industrial establishments.

Hence, in the implementation of the land reform program the requirements of these equally important program of the
government should be taken into consideration.

3. If your experience after operating within the limited spheres of the pilot projects points to the necessity of
implementing Presidential Decree No. 27 by phases, you shall be guided in the implementation of the program in each
region or province by the following priorities:

First Priority : — In landed estates or landholdings larger than 24 hectares.

Second Priority : — In landholding of 24 hectares and less but not below 12 hectares.

Third Priority : — In landholding of 12 hectares and less.

These priorities will provide the small landowners, who constitute part of the social middle class, with time to adjust their
economic life plans.
These instructions are issued to ensure the efficient and orderly administration and implementation of the Land Reform
Program.

Done in the City of Manila, this 7th day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-two.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines