Executive Order No. 355




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 355, July 02, 1941 ] AMENDING PARAGRAPH (1) OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 335, DATED APRIL 1, 1941, CREATING A CIVILIAN EMERGENCY ADMINISTRATION Paragraph (1) of Executive Order No. 335, dated April 1, 1941, is hereby amended to read as follows: “1. The National Emergency Commission, composed of the Secretary of Department that the President may designate as Chairman and a representative of each of the Executive Departments as members. This Commission shall, subject to the approval of the President, formulate and execute policies and plans for the protection and welfare of the civil population or the Philippines in extraordinary and emergency conditions. It shall have general supervision and control over the officials and organizations as authorized herein, in so far as their duties pertain to said Administration, and shall function through (1) The Manager, Philippine Red Cross; (2) a Director of Publicity and Propaganda; (3) a Food Administrator; (4) an Industrial Production Administrator; (5) a Fuel and Transportation Administrator; (6) a National Air Raid Warden; (7) a Director of Communications and such other officials as may be appointed by the President from time to time". Done at the City of Manila, this 2nd day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-one, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the sixth.1âшphi1 (Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON President of the Philippines By the President: (Sgd.) JORGE B. VARGAS Secretary to the President The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation