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Executive Order No. 8-W (1943)

The powers, functions, and duties as well as the personnel, appropriations, and properties of the Office of Special Services, Office of the President of the Philippines, are hereby transferred to the Department of Information and Public Relations.

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Executive Order No. 7-W (1943)

1. To study and recommend plans for relief of the population immediately upon reoccupation of the Philippines, and to formulate proposals for the obtaining of such supplies as may be required for his purpose, and for the restoration of public and private property.

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Executive Order No. 6-W (1943)

Done at the City of Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, this twenty-ninth day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-three, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the eight.

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Executive Order No. 4 (1943)

2. The music of the —Diwa ng Bayan— and its words may be played and sung only when public acts of an official or semiofficial character are performed or held, when the Flag of the Republic of the Philippines is to be hoisted or lowered, when performances or celebrations of an official character are held, by public or private schools duly recognized by the Government, or on similarly solemn occasions.

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Executive Order No. 179 (1938)

Major General Basilio J. Valdes, Regular Force, Deputy Chief of Staff, is hereby designated Chief of Staff Vice Major General Paulino Santos, and will assume the duties prescribed for that Office in the National Defense Act and in pertinent executive orders, effective January first, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine.

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Executive Order No. 178 (1938)

, President of the Philippines, do hereby prescribe the following rules of procedure, including modes of proof in cases before courts-martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions, and other military tribunals in the Army of the Philippines, and direct them to be published for the government of all concerned. These rules shall be known and designated as the Manual for Courts-Martial, Philippine Army, and shall be in force and effect from this date.

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Executive Order No. 177 (1938)

upon recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Finance, and the provincial board of Zambales, and pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, the barrio of Balaybay is hereby segregated from the municipality of Subic and annexed to the municipality of Castillejos.

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Executive Order No. 176 (1938)

Pursuant to the provisions of section six of Commonwealth Act Numbered Three hundred forty-three, entitled —An Act to abolish the State Police Force, to reorganize the Philippine Constabulary into a National Police Force and providing funds therefor— and until further orders, I hereby designate the Secretary of the Interior to exercise supervision over local police forces. All the powers and duties reserved to the President by Executive Order Numbered One hundred seventy-five, dated November ele

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Executive Order No. 175 (1938)

In order to secure and maintain a high degree of efficiency in the organization and operation of local police forces pending designation of the Department Head who shall exercise supervision over them, and to supplement Executive Order Numbered One hundred fifty-three reorganizing the Philippine Constabulary into a national police force,

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Executive Order No. 174 (1938)

1. Whenever appointments, whether original, by transfer, reinstatement or promotion, are to be made to positions subject to the provisions of Commonwealth Act Numbered Four hundred and two, only the following rates of compensation provided in section three thereof shall be given, instead of those provided in section two hundred sixty-five of the Administrative Code:

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Executive Order No. 173 (1938)

Executive Order Numbered Eighty-four, dated January twentieth, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, requires that complete classified data relating to real property ownership, improvements, and assessments in the Philippines, be gathered and compiled as of March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven; while Proclamation Numbered Three hundred thirty, dated October eleventh, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, has postponed Census Day for January first, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine;

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Executive Order No. 172 (1938)

1. Provincial boards and city boards or councils may authorize, subject to the approval of the Department Secretaries concerned, those officials whose duties make it necessary or advisable for them to use special means of transportation for the purpose of supervision, inspection, or investigation, to utilize their privately-owned automobiles for official purposes and to receive reimbursement for the same at the rate of ten centavos for each kilometer of travel on official business:

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Executive Order No. 171 (1938)

, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested by law, do hereby constitute and create a National Fire Prevention Board to be composed of a chairman and four members who shall be appointed by the President of the Philippines from time to time.

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Executive Order No. 170 (1938)

—(2) Landowners delinquent in the payment of irrigation charges for all years prior to nineteen hundred and thirty-seven shall be allowed until December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, to pay in full such charges without penalty, or they may be granted a period of ten years from September first, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, within which they shall pay unpaid charges including the penalties and expenses of publication. In the latter case, payments shall be made in ten equal

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Executive Order No. 169 (1938)

2. The names of all officers of the Regular Force shall be carried on a seniority list which, when approved by the President, shall establish permanently the relative seniority of such officers, subject to exceptions made in accordance with these regulations. Officers thereafter promoted to any grade in the Philippine Army shall be placed at the bottom of the grade to which promoted and seniority in such grade shall be established according to total length of service therein, except that any off

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Executive Order No. 168 (1938)

—6. In order to enable the Board to carry out its functions hereunder, the Board or any of its members and its duly authorized representatives or agents are hereby granted all the powers of an investigating committee within the purview of section seventy-one of the Revised Administrative Code. The Board is also authorized to call directly upon any Department, Bureau, or office in the executive branch of the Government or upon any Government-owned or controlled entity or agency for such assistanc

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Executive Order No. 167 (1938)

3. In conformity with the foregoing, the budgets of the provincial governments shall be submitted to the Department of Finance, through the Department of Interior, such budgets to contain the plantilla of personnel in such details as heretofore prescribed and clear and specific statements both of the estimated income and the proposed expenditures for the corresponding fiscal year. In thus submitting the budget, the provincial board should enclose a written opinion of the provincial treasurer as

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Executive Order No. 166 (1938)

2. On the death of a distinguished official of either the United States or the Philippine Government, or on the anniversary of the death of a great martyr or national hero, or on a date commemorating a national mourning or a national loss, the flags on all Government buildings throughout the Philippines may be ordered at half-mast only by the President of the Philippines or by resolution of the National Assembly.

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Executive Order No. 165 (1938)

upon the recommendation of the provincial board of Ilocos Sur and the Secretary of the Interior, and pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, the barrios of Pias, Atabay, Baluarte, Dinaratan, Sorioan, San Tiburcio, and Cubcubbuot, and the sitios of Culiong and Maligcong are hereby segregated from the municipality of Santa Lucia, Ilocos Sur, and annexed to the municipality of Bauguen, same province.

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Executive Order No. 164 (1938)

President of the Philippines, upon recommendation of the Secretary of Labor and by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order that the port of Cebu be closed as a port of entry to immigrants coming to the Philippines, effective on November one, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, and until such time as proper facilities for the above-mentioned purposes can be provided therein.

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Executive Order No. 163 (1938)

President of the Philippines, hereby authorize the Chairmen of Provincial Civil Service Examining Committees to approve provisionally all appointments in the provincial and municipal branches, except those involving promotion or increase in salary which should be sent direct by the appointing officer to the Bureau of Civil Service for action. All appointments, therefore, whether temporary, probational, by transfer or reinstatement, should be sent by the provincial or municipal officer making the

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Executive Order No. 162 (1938)

—1. No official or employee of the Government, while undergoing trainee instruction or who, upon completing thereof, shall have been selected for additional training to qualify him as a commissioned or non-commissioned officer of the Reserve Force, or who shall have been called to regular annual active duty training, or to extended tour of active duty in the Philippine Army, in case he holds a commission in the Reserve Force, shall be compelled to lose his position or to suffer any decrease of p

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Executive Order No. 161 (1938)

PROMULGATING REGULATIONS TO GOVERN THE ADMINISTRATION AND COLLECTION OF DELINQUENT IRRIGATION FEES FROM LANDOWNERS UNDER IRRIGATION SYSTEMS CONSTRUCTED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF ACT NUMBERED TWO THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-TWO, AS AMENDED, FIXING ADJUSTED IRRIGATION FEES FOR SAID SYSTEMS AND PRESCRIBING THE MANNER OF COLLECTING SAME, AND REVOKING EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED FORTY-TWO, DATED FEBRUARY FIFTEEN, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY-EIGHT

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Executive Order No. 160 (1938)

in order to meet these Increasing expenditures, to distribute the tax burden more nearly on the basis of ability of pay, and to facilitate the achievement of essential social objectives, it is necessary to effect a revision of the whole tax structure of the Philippines with a view to establishing an integrated and coordinated system which may be satisfactory as regards fiscal productivity, administrative feasibility, theoretical justice, and be better adapted to the political, economic and socia

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Executive Order No. 159 (1938)

upon the recommendation of the Provincial Board of Capiz and the Secretary of the Interior, and pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, the twenty-seven municipalities of the Province of Capiz, as established by section thirty-eight of said Code and Executive Order Numbered Two hundred and eighty-eight, series of nineteen hundred and thirty, are hereby increased to twenty-eight, by segregating from the municipality of Dao, the barrios of Cuartero, Ag

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Executive Order No. 158 (1938)

upon recommendation of the provincial board of Rizal and the Secretary of the Interior, and pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, the twenty-seven municipalities of the Province of Rizal, as established by section thirty-eight of the said Code and Executive Order Numbered One hundred and eight, series of nineteen hundred and seventeen, are hereby increased to twenty-eight by separating the barrio of Angono from the municipality of Binangonan and or

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Executive Order No. 157 (1938)

with the incidence of the export tax upon sugar shipped to the United States as provided in the Tydings-McDuffie Law so imminent, and the eventual loss of the preferential position of the Philippine sugar in the United States market unavoidable, it has become necessary to find means whereby the sugar industry as a whole would be able to stand the gradual loss of its preferential position in the United States market and in time place it upon a competitive position in relation with the other sugar

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Executive Order No. 156 (1938)

In order to secure and maintain a high degree of efficiency in the organization and administration of local police forces pending designation of the Department Head who shall exercise supervision over them, and to supplement Executive Order No. 153 reorganizing the Philippine Constabulary into a national police force,

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Executive Order No. 155 (1938)

It being——understood,—That no officer shall receive less than the basic rate of salary corresponding to the grade he/she held as an officer in the Philippine Police Corps prior to the effective date of the fifteen percent salary reduction prescribed in Law Number Four thousand thirty-two, including the longevity pay enjoyed by virtue of article eight hundred and forty-six of the Administrative Code before January 1, nineteen thirty-three,

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Executive Order No. 154 (1938)

President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers conferred upon me by law, do hereby amend Executive Order Numbered Seventy-three, dated December third, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, so that the Cebu Landing Field shall hereafter be designated as a Military Airport and Landing Field to be supervised and controlled by the Army of the Philippines, subject to the following conditions:

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