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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 282, June 15, 1940 ]

AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 281, DATED JUNE 15, 1940, EFFECTUATING THE PURPOSES OF GENERAL RULING NO. 5, JUNE 6, 1940, OF THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY OF THE UNITED STATES, APPROVED JUNE 6, 1940, BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, UNDER SECTION 5 (6) OF THE ACT OF OCTOBER 6, 1917 (40 STAT. 411), AS AMENDED, EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 8389 OF APRIL 10, 1940, AS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND REGULATIONS ISSUED PURSUANT THERETO AND UNDER ALL OTHER AUTHORITY OF LAW

WHEREAS, by ruling of the Secretary of the Treasury on June 17, 1940, until further notice shipments, arrivals and mail coming into the Philippines from France and shipments and mail censored by France or her dominions, territories and possessions are no longer exempt from examination as provided in General Ruling No. 5;

NOW, THEREFORE, pursuant to the authority herein stated, and to the authority vested in me as President of the Philippines, in order to assist in effectuating the purposes of said General Ruling No. 5 and the delivery to the United States High Commissioner to the Philippines of any securities or evidences thereof brought into the Philippines, it is ordered that:

Sections 1, 2, 3, and 5 of Executive Order No. 281 are hereby “amended by the elimination therein of the word “France.”

Done at the City of Manila, this 22nd day of June, 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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