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Executive Order No. 5-W (1942)

For administrative purposes this Office shall be considered a section under the Office of the President of the Philippines and shall have the authority, with the approval of the corresponding head or chief, to obtain the assistance of officers and members of any Department, Bureau or Office of the Government which it may consider necessary for the proper performance of its duties.

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Executive Order No. 402 (1942)

President of the Philippines, by virtue of the authority vested in me under the Constitution and laws of the Philippines, do hereby authorize and empower Colonel Manuel Roxas, P.A., Secretary to the President and ranking member of the Cabinet, to act for and in behalf of the President of the Philippines in any and all matters within his jurisdiction under the Constitution and laws of the Philippines for the proper and continued administration of the affairs of government in the Philippines, and

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Executive Order No. 401 (1942)

By virtue of the authority vested in me under the Constitution and laws of the Philippines, the Court of First Instance of Iloilo is hereby conferred jurisdiction to try crimes committed in the province of Masbate.

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Executive Order No. 400 (1942)

Pursuant to the Constitution and laws of the Philippines, the City of Greater Manila is hereby created. Its territory shell include the present City of Manila, the Quezon City, and all the territory comprised in the municipalities of Caloocan, San Juan, Mandaluyong, Makati, Pasay, and Para—aque.

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Executive Order No. 3-W (1942)

President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution and by Commonwealth Act Number Six hundred as amended, do hereby declare that all University of the Philippines Fellows, now taking post-graduate studies in the United States, shall therefore be supervised according to Executive Order No. 1-W, and shall perform the duties and enjoy all the rights and privileges mentioned in these orders effective June 1, 1942.

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Executive Order No. 247 (1939)

, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the power in me vested by Commonwealth Acts Numbered Four hundred fifty-three and Five hundred one, do ordain and promulgate the following:

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Executive Order No. 246 (1939)

The positions in items 4, 16, 19, 21, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 38, 39, 40, 43, 44, 45, 52, 54, and 58 shall continue to be paid from the appropriation for the eradication and control of anthrax, rinderpest, foot-and-mouth, and other animal diseases, under Acts Numbered Thirty-one hundred and nineteen, Thirty-one hundred and sixty-six, and Thirty-eight hundred and twenty-five, and Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred and t

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Executive Order No. 245 (1939)

ABOLISHING THE NATIONAL INFORMATION OFFICE (BOARD) AND TRANSFERRING ITS POWERS, FUNCTIONS, AND DUTIES, AS WELL AS ITS PERSONNEL, APPROPRIATIONS, AND PROPERTIES, TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR; AND EFFECTING CERTAIN ADJUSTMENTS OF THE PERSONNEL OF THE SAID DEPARTMENT

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Executive Order No. 244 (1939)

2. The compensation for each position shall be adjusted in accordance with section 12 of Commonwealth Act No. 402. However, in order not to burden the finances of the Government unduly, until sufficient experience has shown the effect of the allocations upon the total appropriation for salaries and wages, there is hereby released, under section 7 of Commonwealth Act No. 446. such part of the savings from the appropriations authorized in said Act, as well as from any excess of actual collections

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Executive Order No. 243 (1939)

President of the Philippines, by virtue of the authority in me vested by law, do hereby create a Traffic Commission; to be composed of such members as may be appointed from time to time by the Chief Executive from among officials of the Government and other persons, especially interested in traffic problems, particularly from the Bureau of Public Works, the Public Service Commission, the Philippine Constabulary, and the Government of the City of Manila.

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Executive Order No. 242 (1939)

Upon petition of the inhabitants of the barrios of Bolinsong. Bagumbang, Buracan, Dimalco, Galolot, and Tiaman that the said barrios be separated from the municipality of Tangub, Province of Misamis Occidental, and organized into a regular municipality, and upon recommendation of the Provincial Board of Misamis Occidental, the Secretary of Finance and the Secretary, of the Interior, and pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, the ten municipalities o

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Executive Order No. 241 (1939)

Upon petition of the inhabitants of the —arrabal de Leganes,— municipality of Jaro, province of Iloilo, that the said district be separated from the municipality of Jaro and organized into an independent municipality, and upon the recommendation of the Provincial Board of Iloilo, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of Finance, and pursuant to the provisions of Section sixty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, the thirty-six municipalities of the province of Iloilo, established

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Executive Order No. 240 (1939)

Upon the recommendation of the Provincial Board of Sulu in its Resolution No. 231, series of 1938, concurred in by the Commissioner for Mindanao and Sulu and the Secretary of the Interior, and pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, the seat of the municipal district government of Tandubas, Sulu, is hereby transferred from its present location at the barrio of Tandubas to the barrio of Si Kubung Tausan.

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Executive Order No. 239 (1939)

Upon the recommendation of the National Transportation Board, Executive Order No. 135, dated December 31, 1937, as amended by Executive Order No. 194, dated March 13, 1939, is further amended so as to include the following roads in the classification of National Roads:

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Executive Order No. 238 (1939)

Commonwealth Act No. 510, approved November 34, 1939, authorizes the President of the Philippines, either directly or through any department, bureau, office or instrumentality of the National Government which he may designate for the purpose, to make, the allocation and reallocation of the quotas established for the Philippines by said Public Act No. 127, as amended, and to issue and promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the proper allocation, reallocation and administrat

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Executive Order No. 237 (1939)

—3. The maximum prices set forth in the attached schedules for milk, sardines, corned beef, vegetable lard, sugar, wheat flour, galvanized iron sheets, plain galvanized wire, steel bars, nails, motor fuel alcohol, gasoline, petroleum, cement, mongo. meat, corn, and rice fixed herein shall apply to the respective brands specified and to such other brand or class of the same article as the Emergency Control Administration may, upon proper application, determine to be of a quality or class the same

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Executive Order No. 236 (1939)

it has been found necessary that a procedure should be established to exempt some dealers from the requirements of Executive Order No. 233, current series, in cases when factory prices have increased beyond the limitations established by said Executive Order No. 233, in order to permit them to replenish their stocks of merchandise and to allow a regular flow of business or to fulfill contracts calling for delivery of goods at future dates;

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Executive Order No. 235 (1939)

, President of the Philippines, do hereby prescribe that any person who has qualified in a Spanish examination may be promoted to a position with a salary not in excess of that allowable as a result of the same examination in English if the appointing officer certifies that the principal duties of the position require a knowledge of Spanish or that the employee has a sufficient knowledge of English to perform the duties of the position to which the promotion is proposed.

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Executive Order No. 234 (1939)

The Board of Indeterminate Sentence, created under Act Numbered Forty-one hundred and three, as amended, shall, in addition to its other duties, look into the records of military prisoners confined in penitentiaries who are sentenced to indeterminate terms of imprisonment in order to determine the proper time of their release on parole, recommend to me the release on parole of such prisoners when such proper time shall have come, exercise supervision over them when released on parole, and determ

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Executive Order No. 233 (1939)

1. The basic maximum prices set forth in the attached schedules for milk, sardines, corned beef, vegetable lard, sugar, wheat flour, galvanized iron sheets, plain galvanized wire, steel bars, nails, motor fuel alcohol, gasoline, petroleum, cement, mongo, meat, corn, and rice shall apply in Manila and in the various provincial capitals and distributing centers set forth in said schedules.

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Executive Order No. 232 (1939)

Beginning at point 1, the northwest corner of block No. 77, thence southward along the east boundary by Muelle San Francisco to point 2, the southwest corner of block No. 77; thence eastward along the north boundary of Street No. 22 to point 3, the southeast corner of block No. 77; thence northward along the west boundary of Boston Street to point 4, being the southeast corner of block No. 49; thence 44.00 meters westward along the north boundary of 14th Street to point 5, being the eastern part

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Executive Order No. 231 (1939)

the City Council of Bacolod, on the twentieth day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, by Resolution Numbered Ten, series of nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, duly adopted and approved by the said City Council, requested the issue and sale of bonds in the amount of five hundred thousand pesos, under the provisions of section one of Commonwealth Act Numbered Four hundred twenty-eight, for the purpose of raising funds for the construction of the City Hall, the necessary sewer facilities and

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Executive Order No. 230 (1939)

The Department of National Defense shall be charged with the duty of supervising the national defense program of the country, and shall have executive supervision over the Philippine Army, the Bureau of A—ronautics, the Bureau of Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Philippine Nautical School, and over the establishment and operation of all radio stations (receiving, transmitting, or broadcasting) other than those maintained by the Bureau of Posts.

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Executive Order No. 229 (1939)

Public Act Numbered Three hundred of the Congress of the United States, approved August seventh, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, amending Public Act Numbered One hundred twenty-seven of the Congress of the United States, approved March twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, provides for the continuance of the quota of six million pounds of cordage established for the Philippines by Public Act Numbered One hundred thirty-seven of the Congress of the United States, approved June fourte

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Executive Order No. 228 (1939)

, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested by law, do hereby direct that all police duties and functions now required by law and regulations to be exercised within harbor and port areas be consolidated and placed under the direct control and supervision of the Insular Collector of Customs. To this end, the customs police, customs watchmen and bay and river guards, customs secret service agents doing police duty, Manila Terminal police, members of the city police when on

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Executive Order No. 227 (1939)

although the provision of said Act regarding automatic waiving of gratuity payments before acceptance of reappointment refers only to reappointments in the National Government, it has never been contemplated that any reappointed employee be allowed to receive gratuity in addition to his salary in the Government, the purpose of the law in giving gratuity being to help the retired employee while in private life;

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Executive Order No. 226 (1939)

1. The Emergency Control Board created under Administrative Order Numbered One hundred seven, or any of its agents thereunto duly deputized by it, is hereby authorized and directed to make an investigation into the matter of supply, distribution, movement, and prices of foods, clothing, fuel, fertilizers, chemicals, building materials, implements, machinery, and equipment required in agriculture and industry, and other articles or commodities of prime necessity, both imported and locally produce

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Executive Order No. 225 (1939)

Under authority of section ninety of the National Defense Act, officers of the United States Army who are commissioned in the Philippine Army by reason of their acceptance of assimilated rank therein shall, effective September first, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, be entitled to quarters or the commuted value thereof, which shall be identical with the rates prescribed for the officers of the Philippine Army of the same grade.

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Executive Order No. 224 (1939)

In view of the lack of material time to adjust the records of the municipality of Banate and the new municipality of Anilao, Province of Iloilo, for purposes of the forthcoming plebiscite on the proposed amendments to the Constitution of the Philippines as provided by Commonwealth Act Numbered Four hundred ninety-two and upon recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, Executive Order Numbered Two hundred twenty, dated September eighth, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, entitled, —Segregati

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Executive Order No. 223 (1939)

—A person who has served six months or less in the Philippine civil service may be reinstated as a probationer within a period of one year following his separation from the service under the former appointment; a person who has served more than six months but less than two years, and who has received absolute appointment, may be reinstated within two years; a person who has served two years, but less than three years, may be reinstated within four years; a person who has served three years, but

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