Executive Order No. 47




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 47, June 06, 1945 ] AMENDING SECTIONS 5-a AND 5-b OF CHAPTER III OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 178, ENTITLED "PRESCRIBING THE PROCEDURE, INCLUDING THE MODES OF PROOF, IN CASES BEFORE COURTS-MARTIAL, COURTS OF INQUIRY, MILITARY COMMISSIONS AND OTHER MILITARY TRIBUNALS OF THE ARMY OF THE PHILIPPINES." Paragraph 2 of section 5-a of Chapter III of Executive Order No. 178, dated December 17, 1938, is hereby amended to read as follows: "Under the authority of A. W-8, the commanding officer of an army, an army corps, a division, or a separate brigade, the Provost Marshal General, and the Superintendent of the Military Academy (except for the trial of an officer) are hereby empowered to appoint general courts-martial." Paragraph 2 of section 5-b of Chapter III of the aforesaid Executive Order is hereby amended to read as follows: "Under the authority of A. W.-9, the commanding officer of a military district, a brigade, regiment, detached battalion and other detached command as well as the commanding officers of all garrisons, forts, and camps directly under Army Headquarters are hereby empowered to appoint special courts-martial." Done at the City of Manila, Philippines, this 6th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-five, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the tenth.1âшphi1 (Sgd.) SERGIO OSMEÑA President of the Philippines By the President: (Sgd.) JOSE S. REYES Secretary to the President The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation