Executive Order No. 381




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 381, December 11, 1941 ] PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PRIORITIES IN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPHS SERVICE AND CREATING THEREFOR A TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH PRIORITIES BOARD Pursuant to the powers conferred upon me by the Constitution and laws of the Philippines, and to effectuate the most efficient telephone and telegraph service for the defense of the Philippines, I, MANUEL L. QUEZON, President of the Philippines, do hereby create and constitute a Telephone and Telegraph Priorities Board composed of a chairman and two members to be designated from time to time by the President of the Philippines.1âшphi1 The Telephone and Telegraph Priorities Board herein constituted shall have full and absolute control over the installation and/or removal of telephone and telegraph facilities, both public and private, and their maintenance, and over all telephone and telegraph traffic. It shall have full authority to arrange or rearrange, or to discontinue, any and all services at any time, whenever the same shall be found necessary. This order shall take effect immediately. Done at the City of Manila, this 11th day of December in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-one and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the seventh. (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