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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 277, May 29, 1940 ]

REDUCING THE REAL PROPERTY TAX ON ALL PERMANENT PLANTS AND/OR TREES DUE FOR THE YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY

The public interest so requiring, I, MANUEL L. QUEZON, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by section fifty-three of Commonwealth Act Numbered Four hundred and seventy, do hereby reduce by thirty per centum the real property tax due on all permanent plants and/or trees for the calendar year nineteen hundred and forty in all the provinces.

This Order shall take effect as of January, one, nineteen hundred and forty.

Done at the City of Baguio, this twenty-ninth day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines’, the fifth.

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

By the President:

(Sgd.) JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President

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