Executive Order No. 83




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 83, January 11, 1937 ] DESIGNATING THE BOARD OF INDETERMINATE SENTENCE TO ACT AS A BOARD OF PARDONS Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Constitution and by the laws of the Philippines, I, MANUEL L. QUEZON, President of the Philippines, do hereby designate the Board of Indeterminate Sentence, created under Act Numbered Four thousand one hundred three, to act as a Board of Pardons, whose duty it shall be to examine or cause to be examined the prison records and history of prisoners confined in any prison or penal colony in the Philippines, who do not come under the provisions of the Indeterminate Sentence Law (Act Numbered Four thousand one hundred three, as amended), and to recommend the pardon of any prisoner whenever it is satisfied that such prisoner has so reformed that upon being pardoned, he will not become a menace to society or become a public charge. In passing upon the wisdom and advisability of granting a pardon, the Board shall take into consideration the crime committed, the probabilities of the prisoner’s again violating the law, his conduct while in prison, and all other matters that in any way bear upon the effect which the pardon of the prisoner may have upon society. Done at the City of Manila, this eleventh day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the second. (Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON President of the Philippines By the President: (Sgd.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO Secretary of the Interior The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation