Executive Order No. 401




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 401, February 26, 1942 ] CONFERRING JURISDICTION ON THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE OF ILOILO TO TRY CRIMES COMMITTED IN THE PROVINCE OF MASBATE By virtue of the authority vested in me under the Constitution and laws of the Philippines, the Court of First Instance of Iloilo is hereby conferred jurisdiction to try crimes committed in the province of Masbate.1âшphi1 Done in the Field, this 26th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-two, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the seventh. (SGD.) MANUEL L. QUEZON President of the Philippines By the President: (SGD.) SERAPIO D. CANCERAN Private Secretary to the President The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation