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71 documents · 2026, 1940

Executive Order No. 316 (1940)

Pursuant to the provisions of section 68 of the Revised Administrative Code, the barrios of Aloneros, Bagong Silang, Balogo, Cabibihan, Catimo, Danlagan, Kabugwang, Kandalapdap, Malbog, Monato, Mangayaw, Quinatacutan, Siguiwan, Tagcawayan, and Triumfo are hereby segregated from the municipality of Guinayangan, Province of Tayabas, and organized into an independent municipality under the name of Tagcawayan, with the seat of government at the barrio of Tagcawayan.

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Executive Order No. 315 (1940)

Each of the persons named below having been certified by the Provincial Boards of Canvassers to have received a plurality of the votes legally cast at the ordinary election held in the provinces and cities on the 10th day of December, nineteen hundred and forty, under the provisions of the Election Code, and there being in my opinion no reason why their election should not be confirmed, the said election is, pursuant to the recommendation of the Commission on Elections, hereby confirmed:

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Executive Order No. 314 (1940)

2. The following positions and employees from the Division of Statistics and Agriculture and Commerce, the Statistical Division of the Bureau of Customs, the General Civil Registry Division of the National Library, the Division of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor, and the Section of Vital Statistics of the Bureau of Health are transferred to the Bureau of Census and Statistics, effective January 1, 1941:

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Executive Order No. 313 (1940)

(a)—Arms:—Paleways of two pieces, dexter (right), azure (blue), and sinister (left), gules (red); a chief white, bearing three mullets (five-pointed stars), (gold), dexter (right), center and sinister (left); an oval field, white, emblazoning at the honor point the symbolic eight-rayed sun in rayonnant, or (gold), each ray-flanked on both sides by lesser and minor rays, or (gold). This is the Coat-of-Arms proper of the Philippine.

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Executive Order No. 312 (1940)

By virtue of the powers vested in me by section one of Act Numbered One thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine, as amended by Acts Numbered Two thousand four hundred and fourteen, Two thousand nine hundred and thirty-five, and Three thousand five hundred and forty-two,

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Executive Order No. 311 (1940)

All roads now classified as insular roads; main traffic routes connecting provincial capitals with important commercial centers, national airports, national seaports, and national parks and roads of military importance, which may be so designated by the President upon favorable recommendation of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications. National roads shall have a right-of-way of not less than twenty (20) meters; provided that a right-of-way of at least sixty (60) meters shall be reserve

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Executive Order No. 310 (1940)

, President of the Philippines, do hereby create the Philippines Heraldry Committee, the chairman and members of which shall be appointed by the President from time to time, to make a study of, and recommend ways and means for, the adoption of the coat-of-arms of the different political subdivisions, provinces, cities, and semi-governmental institutions. The Committee shall have a secretary who shall be designated by the chairman from among its members.

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Executive Order No. 309 (1940)

—The area herein reserved as rights-of-way through naturally forested areas are classified as forest reserve, and it shall be unlawful for any person willfully to enter and occupy any portion of said areas or make kaingin therein or in any manner destroy or cause any damage to the timber stand or other forest growth found therein. Any person violating the provision of this Order shall be subject to the penalty provided for in section 2751 (b) of the Administrative Code, as amended by Commonwealt

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Executive Order No. 308 (1940)

The Code Committee shall immediately meet and organize and appoint a secretary, the expense to be incurred in this connection to be paid out of the discretionary funds of the Chief Executive until the National Assembly shall, by appropriate legislation, provide funds for this purpose. The Committee is hereby empowered to call on any official, office, branch or dependency of the Government for such data and assistance as may be required. The committee shall complete its work not later than two ye

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Executive Order No. 307 (1940)

1. All departments, bureaus, offices and instrumentalities of the Government shall utilize the National Social Security Administration and its duly authorized agencies in the procurement of common and semiskilled labor for the execution of public works. In all cases when it is necessary to employ common and semiskilled labor preference shall be given to those who are registered with the said Administration and its agencies and have been issued certificates showing that they are in need of and fi

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Executive Order No. 306 (1940)

1. For the purpose of classifying airports and landing fields, built or to be built, and fixing the responsibility for their proper construction, administration, use and maintenance, and upon the recommendation of the National Transportation Board created by Executive Order No. 45, dated July 6, 1936,

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Executive Order No. 305 (1940)

With a view to giving as wide publicity as possible to the activities being undertaken by the Government in the promotion of the political, social, and cultural welfare of the people, provincial, municipal, and city treasurers, librarians of the branches of the National Library, and principals of central schools under the Bureau of Education are hereby designated representatives of the Bureau of Printing in their respective jurisdictions to sell and distribute government publications.

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Executive Order No. 304 (1940)

in order to enable the Board on Pensions for Veterans to expedite or otherwise facilitate its work, it is necessary to create investigating committees that could help the said Board in the investigation of applications for veterans— pension in the provinces and chartered cities, as well as to require all officers and employees of all bra subdivisions, agencies, and instrumentalities of the Philippine Government to assist the Board in its work as the latter may request; and

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Executive Order No. 303 (1940)

- Government officials and employees, who, by reason of their long training and experience in office and their proven ability and efficiency, are peculiarly fitted to undertake special studies or to acquire practical training in such particular lines of work as may be useful to the government service, may be granted scholarships although not possessing the educational qualifications required in paragraph 3 hereof.

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Executive Order No. 302 (1940)

more effective supervision and control in the purchase and issue of supplies, materials, furniture and equipment and in the making of repairs are necessary in order that the expenditure of the authorized appropriations for consumption of supplies and materials and for purchase and repair of furniture and equipment may be made with the utmost economy and at the same time delays be minimized in the acquisition of such articles or the completion of such repairs;

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Executive Order No. 301 (1940)

, President of the Philippines, do hereby designate the Philippine National Bank, a Government instrumentality, as one of the agencies to carry out the objectives of Commonwealth Act Numbered S:x hundred, by undertaking the extension of credit facilities to tenants who may need the same for the purpose of their support during the period between harvest seasons and to cover the expenses incident to the purchase of seeds and the proper cultivation of the land which they work, under such conditions

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Executive Order No. 300 (1940)

, President of the Philippines, do hereby direct that, for administrative purposes, the Bureau of Immigration be under the supervision and control of the Office of the President of the Philippines.

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Executive Order No. 299 (1940)

For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of Commonwealth Acts Numbered Ninety and Two hundred and sixty-six, which state that the funds therein appropriated shall be expended through such official, office, entity, or agency as the President may designate, and with a view to achieving efficiency and economy by consolidating the different relief activities of the Government under one management and coordinating such Government relief activities with those being undertaken by private relief i

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Executive Order No. 298 (1940)

, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested by law, hereby; direct that no contract for public service or for furnishing supplies, materials, and equipment to the Government already in force or to be entered into for the first time by the Philippine Government or any of its branches, subdivisions, agencies, or instrumentalities shall be renewed or entered into without public bidding except for very extraordinary reasons and then only after the Auditor General, the Secret

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Executive Order No. 297 (1940)

—SEC. 5. The President of the Philippines, may, by executive order, consolidate in any Government agency now existing all Government activities relating to their promotion, organization, and supervision of cooperative or mutual aid associations or he may create a new agency for such purpose, transferring to the same the personnel, equipment, supplies, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations employed in said activities.

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Executive Order No. 296 (1940)

The municipality of Nueva Valencia as herein organized shall comprise the territory separated from the mother municipality by the Kabilao and Sibunag Rivers and by a straight line from the intersection of the Jordan-Nueva Valencia provincial road and the Kabilao River to the Garangan Hill, consisting of the barrios of Cabalagnan, Calaya, Concordia, Dolores, Guiwanon, La Paz, Lucmayan, Magamay, Nueva Valencia, Pandaraonan, Panobolon, Salvacion, Santa Ana and Tando.

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Executive Order No. 295 (1940)

Beginning at a point marked —1— which is identical to M. B. M. No. 21 of Santa Barbara Cadastre, B. L. Cad. No. 7 Extension; thence S. 17— S3' E. 10.18 meters to point— —2— which is corner 6 of the Boundary and Index Map of case No. 12 of the same cadastre; thence S. 26— 36' E. 20.03 meters to point —3— which is corner 7 of the same case; thence S. 9— 54' W. 76.71 meters to point —4— which is corner 8 of the same case at the middle of Jalaud River; thence following the course of the said river i

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Executive Order No. 294 (1940)

That rights-of-way of at least one hundred twenty (120) meters shall be reserved through naturally forested areas of aesthetic or scientific value. Right-of-way widths of sixty (60) meters shall also be reserved in laying out the principal streets of town sites located on public land, and a minimum width of fifteen meters for other streets.—

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Executive Order No. 293 (1940)

the services of the said Bank may be rendered more promptly and economically by the provincial and municipal treasurers in those provinces where the Agricultural and Industrial Bank has not any branch or agency, if such treasurers are appointed agents of the Agricultural and Industrial Bank; and

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Executive Order No. 292 (1940)

, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested by law, do hereby designate that portion of the lands reclaimed by the Government, surveyed during January, nineteen hundred and eight, known as Reclamation Number One, Manila Harbor, and commonly known as Port Area District, the —Manila Port Area Rat-Proof Building Zone— within the limits of which only rat-proof building construction made of durable and hard materials, such as reinforced concrete, bricks, iron, steel, or other

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Executive Order No. 291 (1940)

The Commission shall have authority to acquire by purchase, lease, or donation such land as may be necessary on which to hold the exposition, to direct the construction and laying out of the grounds and buildings, to incur all necessary expenditures in the acquisition, transportation and insurance of the exhibits, and to perform such other duties and acts as may be necessary to enable it to carry into effect the purposes of Commonwealth Act Numbered Five hundred and fifty and this Order. The Phi

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Executive Order No. 290 (1940)

1. Any person desiring to possess one or more firearms for personal protection or for use in hunting or other lawful purposes and ammunition thereof shall, upon making application therefor and before receiving the license, for the purpose of security, deposit a United States or Philippine Government bond or make a cash deposit with the Postal Savings Bank in the sum of forty pesos for each firearm for which the license is to be issued and indorse the certificate of deposit therefor to the Treasu

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Executive Order No. 289 (1940)

Executive Order No. 72, dated December 3, 1936, as amended by Executive Orders Nos. 195 and 254, dated March 13, 1939 and February 20, 1940, respectively, is further amended accordingly.

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Executive Order No. 288 (1940)

, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by section twenty-seven of Commonwealth Act Numbered Thirty-nine, known as the Charter of the City of Zamboanga, as amended by Commonwealth Act Numbered Two hundred and fifty, do hereby reduce by thirty per centum the real property tax due on all coconut trees and abaca plants for the calendar year nineteen hundred and forty and remit the penalty on the first installment of the tax due on all real property for the year nineteen

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Executive Order No. 287 (1940)

, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by section twenty-seven of Commonwealth Act Numbered Fifty-one, known as the Charter of the City of Davao, as amended by Commonwealth Act Numbered Four hundred and sixty-two, do hereby reduce by thirty per centum the real property tax due on all coconut trees and abaca plants for the calendar year nineteen hundred and forty in the City of Davao.

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