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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 20, March 04, 1936 ]

FIXING OFFICE HOURS ON SATURDAYS AND DURING THE HOT SEASON

Pursuant to the provisions of section five hundred and sixty-four of the Administrative Code of nineteen hundred and seventeen, the office hours of all Government bureaus and offices, including the provincial and municipal governments and the City of Manila, during the period from April first to June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, both dates inclusive, are hereby reduced to five and one-half continuous hours which shall be from seven-thirty a.m. to one p.m. All offices in the City of Baguio, insular, provincial, and municipal, are exempted from the provisions of this Executive Order.1âшphi1

This Order does not oblige the head of any department, bureau, or office so to reduce the hours of labor in his branch of work, but leaves the same in his discretion subject to the requirements of the service.

Done at the City of Manila, this fourth day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the first.

(Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO
Secretary of the Interior

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