Executive Order No. 2-W




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 2-W, June 16, 1942 ] CREATING COMMISSION OF OFFICERS OF THE PHILIPPINE ARMY WHO WILL BE COMMISSIONED BY THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES By virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution and pursuant to the provisions of Commonwealth Act Numbered One providing for the National Defense of the Philippines and section one of Commonwealth Act Numbered Six hundred, as amended, investing the President of the Philippines with extraordinary powers, I MANUEL L. QUEZON, President of the Philippines, do hereby declare that, upon qualification and acceptance by any officer of the Philippine Army of a commission tendered him by the President of the United States in the Army of the United States, the commission held by him in the Philippine Army shall forthwith be and become vacated. Upon the termination of his commission in the Army of the United States and immediately following his honourable discharge therefrom he shall revert to his former status and rank in the Philippine Army. Done at the City of Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, this sixteenth day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-two, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the seventh.Ꮮαwρhi৷ MANUEL L. QUEZON President of the Philippines The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation