NUMBER	TITLE
Commonwealth Act No. 512 December 22, 1939	An Act to Amend Certain Sections of the Philippine Tariff Act of Nineteen Hundred and Nine, as Amended, for the Purpose of Raising Revenue.
Commonwealth Act No. 511 December 12, 1939	An Act to Carry Out the Provisions of Section Sixty-Seven of the Congress of the United states Approved March Twenty-Four, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Four, as Amended By Public Act Numbered three Hundred of the Congress of the United states, Approved August Seven, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Nine Regarding Export Taxes, By Providing for the Imposition and Collection of An Export Tax on Philippine Articles Exported to the United states and the Disposition of the Funds Derived From Said Tax.
Commonwealth Act No. 510 November 14, 1939	An Act to Authorize the President of the Philippines Either Directly or through Any Department, Bureau. Office, or Instrumentality of the National Government Which He May Designate for the Purpose, to Take Charge of the Allocation, Reallocation, And. Administration of Quotas Established for the Philippines By Public Act Numbered One Hundred and Twenty-Seven of the Congress of the United states, Approved March Twenty-Four, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Four, as Amended By Public Act Numbered. three Hundred of the Congress of the United states, Approved August Seven, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Nine.
Commonwealth Act No. 509 November 10, 1939	An Act Appropriating One Million three Hundred Seventy-One thousand and One Hundred Fifty Pesos as Additional Fund for the Immediate Opening and Maintenance of New Public Primary Classes throughout the Philippines.
Commonwealth Act No. 508 October 27, 1939	An Act to Amend Commonwealth Act Numbered Four Hundred and Sixty-Nine Entitled "An Act Appropriating Eight Million One Hundred Eighty thousand Pesos for Public Works."
Commonwealth Act No. 507 October 27, 1939	An Act to Amend Commonwealth Act Numbered Sixty-Seven Entitled "An Act Making Appropriations for Public Works," as Amended.
Commonwealth Act No. 506 October 27, 1939	An Act to Amend Commonwealth Act Numbered three Hundred and thirty Entitled "An Act Appropriating Ninety-Six Million three Hundred Fifty-One thousand and three Hundred Pesos for Public Works."
Commonwealth Act No. 505 October 27, 1939	An Act to Amend Commonwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred Forty Entitled " An Act Appropriating the Sum of Five Million Fifty thousand Pesos for Elementary School Buildings."
Commonwealth Act No. 504 October 16, 1939	An Act Creating Fifteen Additional Positions of Judges of First Instance and the Necessary Subordinate Personnel, Fixing their Respective Duties and Salaries, and Appropriating Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 503 October 16, 1939	An Act to Amend Certain Sections of the National Internal Revenue Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 502 October 12, 1939	An Act to Create Quezon City
Commonwealth Act No. 501 September 30, 1939	An Act Appropriating the Sum of One Hundred thousand Pesos for the Adjustments of the Personnel and Other Changes in the Department of Labor as Contemplated in Commonwealth Act Numbered Four Hundred and Fifty-three.
Commonwealth Act No. 500 September 30, 1939	An Act to Authorize the President, in VIew of the Existence of a state of National Emergency to Decrease Expenditures of the Executive Department of the National, Government through the Suspension or Abandonment of Services Activities, or Operations of No Immediate Necessity.
Commonwealth Act No. 499 September 30, 1939	An Act to Regulate for a Limited Period, in VIew of the Existence of a state of National Emergency, the Transfer of Vessels and of Shipping Facilities and to Provide Penalties for the VIolation therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 498 September 30, 1939	An Act to Declare, in VIew of the Existence of a National Emergency, a National Policy in Connection therewith, and to Authorize the President of the Philippines for a Limited Period to Promulgate Rules and Regulations and to Take Other Necessary steps to Effectuate Such Policy, Prescribing Penalties for VIolations of the Rules and Regulations Issued By the President, and Providing Appropriation therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 497 September 30, 1939	An Act to Amend Section One thousand Four Hundred and Seventeen of the Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 496 September 30, 1939	An Act to Authorize the President of the Philippines for a Limited Period, in VIew of the Existence of a state of National Emergency, to Take Over, for Use or Operation By the Government, Any Public Service or Enterprise, to Prescribe Penalties for Interfering With the Exercise By the Government of Its Authority thereunder,And to Appropriate the Necessary Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 495 September 30, 1939	An Act to Amend Section Four or Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred and Twenty.
Commonwealth Act No. 494 September 30, 1939	An Act to Authorize the President of the Philippines to Suspend, Until We Date of Adjournment of the Next Regular Session of the National Assembly Either Wholly or Partially the Operation of Commonwealth Act Numbered Four Hundred and Forty-Four, Commonly Known as the Eight-Hour Labor Law.
Commonwealth Act No. 493 September 30, 1939	An Act Appropriating Two Million Five Hundred and Fifty thousand Pesos for Public Primary Classes throughout the Philippines.
Commonwealth Act No. 492 September 19, 1939	An Act to Submit to the Filipino People. for Approval or Disapproval, the Amendments to the Constitution of the Philippines and to the Ordinance Appended thereto Proposed By the National Assembly in S Adopted on September Fifteen, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Nine, and to Appropriate Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 491 June 18, 1939	An Act to Amend Certain Sections of Act Numbered Twenty-Five Hundred and Ninety, Entitled "An Act for We Protection of Game and Fish. "
Commonwealth Act No. 490 June 18, 1939	An Act to Grant Regularly Appointed Municipal Officers and Employees Vacation and Sick Leave By Amending Sections Two Hundred and Eighty-Four and Two Hundred and Eighty-Five-A of the Administrative Code, as Amended By Commonwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred and Twenty.
Commonwealth Act No. 489 June 18, 1939	An Act to Amend Section Seven of Commonwealth Act Numbered Fifty-Seven as Amended By Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred Fifty-Eight.
Commonwealth Act No. 488 June 18, 1939	An Act Authorizing Roman Baluyut to Sell, Convey. Assign, or Otherwise Transfer His Franchise and All Property and Rights Acquired Under Act Numbered thirty-Eight Hundred and Eighty, in Favor of the Riverside Electric Company, Incorporated.
Commonwealth Act No. 487 June 18, 1939	Act to Grant the Cotabato Light and Power Company, Incorporated, a Franchise For.An Electric Light, Heat and Power System in Cotabato, Cotabato.
Commonwealth Act No. 486 June 18, 1939	An Act to Grant Esperanza Lucerna a Franchise, for An Electric Light, Heat, and Power System in Ilog, Occidental Negros.
Commonwealth Act No. 485 June 18, 1939	An Act to Permit Bets in the Game of Basque Pelota.
Commonwealth Act No. 484 June 18, 1939	An Act to Amend Sections One, three and Four of Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred and Fifty Six, Entitled "An Act Authorizing the Philippine Anti-Tuberculosis Society to Hold Horse Races, With Betting, for Charitable and Civic Purposes and to Promote Horse Breeding in these Islands."
Commonwealth Act No. 483 June 18, 1939	An Act Authorizing His Excellency Manuel L. Quezon President of the Philippines, to Accept the Gift Consisting of Arms of Mexican Manufacture Tendered Him By the Government of Mexico.
Commonwealth Act No. 482 June 18, 1939	An Act Authorizing His Excellency, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, to Accept the Decoration Known as the "Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown of Italy," Conferred Upon Him By His Majesty, the King of Italy.
Commonwealth Act No. 481 June 18, 1939	An Act to Amend Commonwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred and Ninety-Four, Known as the Mechanical Engineering Law.
Commonwealth Act No. 480 June 18, 1939	An Act Transferring the Administration and General Supervision of the Pilar Irrigation System From the Municipality of Pilar Province of Bataan to the District Engineer of the Said Province.
Commonwealth Act No. 479 June 18, 1939	An Act Authorizing the Payment of Per Diems to VIce-Mayors and Councilors of the Municipalities of Specially Organized Provinces and of the Municipal Districts of All Provinces.
Commonwealth Act No. 478 June 18, 1939	An Act to Name "Comandante Quezon Highway" the Road From Balanga to Bagac, Province of Bataan.
Commonwealth Act No. 477 June 18, 1939	An Act to Include All Deputy Governors and Special Agents of the Specially Organized Provinces Among Officers Embraced in Unclassified Service.
Commonwealth Act No. 476 June 18, 1939	An Act to Repeal Act Numbered Sixteen Hundred and thirty-Nine.
Commonwealth Act No. 475 June 17, 1939	An Act to Amend Commonwealth Act Numbered three Hundred and thirty Entitled "An Act Appropriating Ninety-Six Million three Hundred Fifty-One thousand and three Hundred Pesos for Public Works."
Commonwealth Act No. 474 June 17, 1939	An Act to Amend Certain Items and to Insert Others Under Section One Paragraph A, and to Amend Section three of Commonwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred Forty.
Commonwealth Act No. 473 June 17, 1939	An Act to Provide for the Acquisition of Philippine Citizenship By Naturalization, and to Repeal Acts Numbered Twenty-Nine Hundred and Twenty-Seven and thirty-Four Hundred and Forty-Eight
Commonwealth Act No. 472 June 16, 1939	An Act Revising the General Authority of Municipal Councils and Municipal District Councils to Levy Taxes, Subject to Certain Limitations.
Commonwealth Act No. 471 June 16, 1939	An Act to Amend Act Numbered Four thousand and three Entitled "An Act to Amend and Compile the Law Relating to Fish and Other Aquatic Resources of the Philippine Islands, and for Other Purposes"
Commonwealth Act No. 470 June 16, 1939	Assessment Law
Commonwealth Act No. 469 June 15, 1939	An Act Appropriating Eight Million One Hundred Eighty thousand Pesos for Public Works.
Commonwealth Act No. 468 June 15, 1939	An Act to Create An Advance Fund of Two Million Pesos to Finance a General Revision of Real Property Assessments in the Provinces.
Commonwealth Act No. 467 June 15, 1939	An Act Appropriating Additional Funds for the Operation of the Government of the Common­Wealth of the Philippines During the Fiscal Year Nineteen Hundred and Forty.
Commonwealth Act No. 466 June 15, 1939	An Act to Revise, Amend and Codify the Internal Revenue Laws of the Philippines
Commonwealth Act No. 465 June 14, 1939	An Act to Impose a Residence Tax
Commonwealth Act No. 464 June 14, 1939	An Act to Remit, Under Certain Conditions, Unpaid Taxes and Penalties on Forfeited Real Property.
Commonwealth Act No. 463 June 14, 1939	An Act to Increase the Maximum Period Within Which the Payment of Loans of Municipal Funds May Be Made.
Commonwealth Act No. 462 June 14, 1939	An Act to Amend Sections Twenty-Seven and Twenty-Eight and the First Paragraph of Section Twenty-Nine of the Charter of the City of Davao, Relative to Taxes on Real Estate in the Said City.
Commonwealth Act No. 461 June 09, 1939	An Act to Regulate the Relations Between Landowner and Tenant and to Provide for Compulsory Arbitration of Any Controversy Arising Between them.
Commonwealth Act No. 460 June 09, 1939	An Act to Raise the Amount that May Be Loaned By the National Bank.For Agricultural Purposes From Sixty to Seventy-Five Per Cent of Its Capital and Surplus, By Amending Act Numbered Twenty-Nine Hundred and thirty-Eight, as Amended By.Act Numbered Forty-One Hundred and Seventy.
Commonwealth Act No. 459 June 09, 1939	An Act Creating the Agricultural and Industrial Bank.
Commonwealth Act No. 458 June 09, 1939	An Act to Provide for the Establishment of a Reserve Bank in the Philippines
Commonwealth Act No. 457 June 08, 1939	An Act to Amend Further Section One of Act Numbered thirty-Five Hundred and Ninety-Seven, as Amended.
Commonwealth Act No. 456 June 08, 1939	An Act to Amend Sections Nineteen, Twenty, and One Hundred and Eighteen of Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred Forty-One, Commonly Known as the Public Land Act.
Commonwealth Act No. 455 June 08, 1939	An Act to Amend Sections three Hundred thirty-Seven, three Hundred thirty-Eight, and three Hundred Forty of the Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 454 June 08, 1939	An Act to Amend Various Sections of Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred and Forty-Six, Known as the Public Service Act.
Commonwealth Act No. 453 June 08, 1939	An Act Authorizing the President of the Philippines for a Limited Period to Abolish the National Information Board and to Effect Adjustments of the Personnel of the Departments of the Interior, Agriculture and Commerce, and Labor to Change the Designations of Any Office or Position and to Consolidate Any Item-Or Part of Items of Appropriation for Salaries and Wages With Any Other Item or Items or Parts thereof in Said Departments.
Commonwealth Act No. 452 June 08, 1939	Pasture Land Act
Commonwealth Act No. 451 June 08, 1939	An Act to Create the Legislative Service Office of the National Assembly, Appropriating Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 450 June 08, 1939	An Act to Provide. for the Promotion of the Livestock Industry through the Establishment Equipment, Maintenance, and Operation of Breeding stations and stock Farms for Livestock and Providing Funds therefor, and through Compulsory Castration of Undesirable Livestock and Prescribing Penalties for VIolation of Its Provisions.
Commonwealth Act No. 449 June 08, 1939	An Act Authorizing the President of the Philippines to Conduct Negotiations for the Acquisition, Management and Operation By the Government of the Philippines, of the Manila Electric Company, the Manila Gas Corporation, the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, and Any Other Public Utility Concern Whose Management and Operation By the Government Are, His Judgment, Required By Public Interest.
Commonwealth Act No. 448 June 08, 1939	An Act to Prohibit the Construction of Obstructions Hazardous to Air Navigation, the Construction of Private Landing Fields Abutting Other Landing Fields, and Prescribing Penalties for VIolations of Same.
Commonwealth Act No. 447 June 08, 1939	An Act to Further Amend Section Twenty-Seven Hundred and Fifty-One of the Administrative Code, as Amended By Act Numbered thirty-three Hundred and Fourteen
Commonwealth Act No. 446 June 08, 1939	An Act Appropriating Funds for the Operation of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines During the Fiscal Year Ending June thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Forty.
Commonwealth Act No. 445 June 03, 1939	An Act to Amend Subsection (C) of Section One of Act Numbered thirty-Nine Hundred and Sixty-One.
Commonwealth Act No. 444 June 03, 1939	Eight Hour Labor Law
Commonwealth Act No. 443 June 03, 1939	An Act to Amend Section Four of Act Numbered Eighteen Hundred and Seventy, as Amended, Commonly Known as the Charter of the University of the Philippines.
Commonwealth Act No. 442 June 03, 1939	An Act to Direct the Transfer of the University of the Philippines to a Site Outside the City of Manila, Appropriating Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 441 June 03, 1939	An Act Creating the National Land Settlement Administration
Commonwealth Act No. 440 May 31, 1939	An Act to Designate the Register of Deeds of Provinces Whose Capitals Have Been Converted Into Cities, as City Register of Deeds Ex-Officio thereof, With Additional Compensation.
Commonwealth Act No. 439 May 31, 1939	An Act to Amend Commonwealth Act Numbered three Hundred and Fifty By Extending the Period for Filing Applications thereunder.
Commonwealth Act No. 438 May 31, 1939	An Act to Amend Subsection (M) of Section Two of Act Numbered Twenty-Eight Hundred and thirty-Two Entitled, ''An Act Creating a Public Corporation Denominated the Metropolitan Water District, Prescribing Its Functions and Activities, and for Other Purposes," as Amended.
Commonwealth Act No. 437 May 31, 1939	An Act Prohibiting the Investment of Any Fund of a Corporation or in Any Business Other than that for Which It Was Organized Unless Certain Requirements Are Fulfilled-Amending for that Purpose the Corporation Law as Amended.
Commonwealth Act No. 436 May 31, 1939	An Act to Amend Sections One 1And three of Commonwealth Act Numbered three Hundred and Four, Entitled An Act to Provide for the Reforestation Afforestation of Water Sheds, Denuded Areas and Cogon or Open Lands Within Forest Reserves, Communal Forests,. National Parks and Timberlands, Sand Dunes, and Other Public Forest Lands, in the Philippines. and Providing the Necessary Funds therefor."
Commonwealth Act No. 435 May 31, 1939	An Act to Add Another Subsection to Section Seven of Commonwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred and Forty-Six Commonly Known as the "Budget Act", Providing for the Temporary Employment of Substitute Officers or Members of the Crew of Government Vessels.
Commonwealth Act No. 434 May 31, 1939	An Act Vesting in the Treasurer of the Philippines Certain Powers Over Trusts.For Charitable Uses And:Appropriating the Necessary.Funds to Carry Out the Purposes thereof.
Commonwealth Act No. 433 May 31, 1939	An Act to Suspend the Granting of Geological Exploration and Petroleum Drilling Leases Under Act Numbered Twenty-Nine Hundred and thirty-Two.
Commonwealth Act No. 432 May 31, 1939	An Act to Amend Section Sixty-Two of General Orders Numbered Fifty-Eight, Known as the Code of Criminal Procedure, Providing for the Taking of Depositions or Written Sworn statements of Material Witnesses Who Have to Leave the Philippines With No Definite Date of Returning thereto and their Admission as Evidence in the Trial of a Case, Under Certain Conditions.
Commonwealth Act No. 431 May 31, 1939	An Act to Give the Board on Documents Discretionary Power to Delegate to Its Duly Authorized Representatives Its Authority to Witness the Burning of Condemned Records.
Commonwealth Act No. 430 May 31, 1939	An Act to Create the Department of National Defense and the Department of Health and Public Welfare.
Commonwealth Act No. 429 May 31, 1939	An Act to Authorize the President of the Philippines to Negotiate With the President of the United states Regarding the Assignment of Filipinos to United states Embassies or Consulates in Foreign Countries, Appropriating Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 428 May 31, 1939	An Act Authorizing the City of Bacolod to Issue Bonds for the Purpose of Providing Funds to Construct a City Hall, the Necessary Sewer Facilities and Other Permanent Improvements in Said City, and Authorizing Also a National Government Bond Issue Secured By Said City Bonds.
Commonwealth Act No. 427 May 31, 1939	An Act Relieving All Provinces, Municipalities and Municipal Districts and the Cities of Zamboanga and Davao From the Payment of Sheriff Fees.
Commonwealth Act No. 426 May 31, 1939	An Act to Amend Section Sixty-Two of Commonwealth Act Numbered Fifty-Seven as Amended By Commonwealth Act Numbered One Fifty-Eight.
Commonwealth Act No. 425 May 31, 1939	An Act Modifying the Manner, Form and Amount of the Bond, of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, Amending for this Purpose, Section One Hundred Forty-Five-M of the Administrative Code, as Amended By Commonwealth Acts Numbered three and Two Hundred-And Fifty-Nine.
Commonwealth Act No. 424 May 31, 1939	An Act to Designate District Engineers of Provinces Whose Capitals Have Been Converted Into Cities, City Engineers Ex Officio With Additional Compensation, Placing All City Engineers, Including that of the City of Manila,. Under the Supervision and Control of the Director of Public Works, Fixing the Salary of the City Engineer of Manila, and Providing for the Appointment of Assistant Engineers, Superintendents, and Other Employees of Chartered Cities.
Commonwealth Act No. 423 May 31, 1939	An Act Providing for the Execution of Public Works or Public Improvements in Chartered Cities.
Commonwealth Act No. 422 May 31, 1939	An Act Exempting Municipalities and Municipal Districts From the Payment of Docket Fees for Criminal Gases, Including VIolations of Municipal Ordinances, in Justice of the Peace Courts.
Commonwealth Act No. 421 May 31, 1939	An Act to Amend Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred and Eight Entitled "An Act to Punish Acts of Evasion of the Laws on the Nationalization of Certain Rights, Franchises or Privileges: "
Commonwealth Act No. 420 May 31, 1939	An Act to Authorize the Conversion in to a Corporation of the Instrumentality or Agency in Charge of Subleasing Lamed Estates Acquired through Lease or Purchase Under Commonwealth Act Numbered three Hundred and Seventy-Eight
Commonwealth Act No. 419 May 22, 1939	An Act to Exempt All Cases of Summary Settlement of Estates of Deceased Persons and Guardianship Proceedings in Which the Gross Value of the Estate Involved Do Not Exceed three Hundred Pesos, From the Payment of Filing Fees and Other Expenses.
Commonwealth Act No. 418 May 22, 1939	An Act Appropriating the Amount of Two Hundred and Fifty thousand Pesos, Out of the Oil Excise Tax Funds in the National Treasury Not Otherwise Appropriated, to Be Used Fob Hastening the Agronomical Survey of the Philippines.
Commonwealth Act No. 417 May 22, 1939	An Act Increasing the Penalty for Robbery or theft of Mail Matter, By Amending Articles three Hundred Two, and three Hundred Ten, as Amended, of the Revised Penal Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 416 May 22, 1939	An Act Appropriating the Sum of Two Million Seven. Hundred Forty thousand Pesos to Be Reimbursed to the Department of the Interior and the Local Governments for the Expenses Borne By them Fob the Second Regular Election of Members.Of the National Assembly, and to Cover the Un-Paid Expenses for the Plebiscite on Woman Suffrage in Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Seven.
Commonwealth Act No. 415 May 22, 1939	An Act To-Appropriate Two Million Nine Hundred Seventy-Five thousand Pesos to Compensate the Provinces, Subprovinces, Quartered Cities, Municipalities, and Municipal Districts for the Loss in Revenue on Account of the Abolition of the Cedula Tax.
Commonwealth Act No. 414 March 13, 1939	An Act Providing Funds So that the President of the Philippines May Continue the Negotiations Already started Between the United states and the Philippines With a VIew to Adjusting the Economic and Trade Relations Between the Two Countries.
Commonwealth Act No. 413 March 07, 1939	An Act Appropriating the Sum of Five Hundred-thousand Pesos for the Purpose of Providing 1Additional Government Services, Personnel, and Facilities for Law Enforcement
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