Executive Order No. 149




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 149, April 22, 1938 ] AUTHORIZING THE SECRETARY TO THE PRESIDENT TO SIGN CERTAIN DEEDS OR CONTRACTS Whenever the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines is party to a deed conveying the title of real property, or is party to any lease or other contract relating to real property belonging to said Government and the authority to execute the same is not by law expressly vested in any other officer, the Secretary to the President is hereby designated, pursuant to the authority conferred upon me by section one of Commonwealth Act Numbered Two hundred and sixty-one, entitled “An Act to amend section five hundred and sixty-seven of the Administrative Code,” to sign said deed or contract for the President of the Philippines.1âшphi1 Done at the City of Baguio, this twenty-second day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the third. MANUEL L. QUEZON President of the Philippines By the President: JORGE B. VARGAS Secretary to the President The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation