TO:	The Commissioner of the Budget and Others Concerned

In view of the critical need for qualified lawyers to be involved in countryside development and in view of the involvement of the Citizens Legal Assistance Office in providing legal assistance to destitute members of the population in all areas ox the Philippines, it is hereby directed that the Citizens Attorneys in the Citizens Legal Assistance Office be granted a 100% adjustments to the prescribed rates as an exception to the provisions of Item No. 2 of Letter of Instructions No. 533, dated April 21, 1977, as follows:

TITLE	Existing Salary	Approved Salary
Supervising Citizens Attorney	P18,636	P21,624
Senior Citizens Attorney	15,264	20,580
District Citizens Attorney	13,824	18,636
Citizens Attorney	12,516	16,860

Career Executive Service positions in the Citizens Legal Assistance Office will follow the rules of adjustments under Budget Circular No. 274, as follows:

Chief Citizens Attorney	P32,184
Deputy Chief Citizens Attorney	26,288
Regional Director	22,728

The Salary increases herein shall take effect October 1, 1977.

Done in the City of Manila, this 26th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-seven.

			(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
			President
			Republic of the Philippines
	By the President:
	(Sgd.) JACOBO C. CLAVE
	Presidential Executive Assistant