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12 documents · 1942, 1943

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. 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. 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. 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. 2-W (1942)

President of the Philippines, do hereby declare that, upon qualification and acceptance by any officer of the Philippine Army of a commission tendered him by the President of the United States in the Army of the United States, the commission held by him in the Philippine Army shall forthwith be and become vacated.— Upon the termination of his commission in the Army of the United States and immediately following his honourable discharge therefrom he shall revert to his former status and rank in t

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Executive Order No. 1-W (1942)

——A monthly pension of $100 during the period of scholarship, for board, lodging and incidentals, shall be given each pensionado. Monthly pensions shall begin on date of leaving Manila and end on the date the pensionado arrives in Manila. Monthly pensions shall be paid at the end of each month in the United States by the Disbursing Agent, Philippine Revenues, Division of Territories and Island Possessions, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C.

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Executive Order No. 1 (1942)

General Douglas MacArthur, United States Army, was appointed Military Adviser to the Commonwealth of the Philippines, with the approval of the President of the United States, upon its inauguration in November, 1935. General MacArthur, assisted by the American Military Mission which he formed, devised original plans and methods to develop the national defense of the Philippines. The Military Mission was the instrument which enabled the Government of the Commonwealth to train and equip an army. Du

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