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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 396, December 24, 1941 ]

REORGANIZING AND GROUPING THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS OF THE GOVERNMENT

Pursuant to the authority conferred upon me by the Constitution and laws of the Philippines, the Executive Departments of the Government are hereby reorganized and grouped as follows:

Office of the President

Department of Finance, Agriculture and Commerce

Department of National Defense, Public Works, Communications, and labor

Department of Public Instruction, Health, and Welfare

All the functions pertaining to the Department of Justice shall be performed by the Chief Justice of the supreme Court.1âшphi1

Done at the City of Manila, this 24th day of December, in the rear 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

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