NUMBER	TITLE
Commonwealth Act No. 613 August 26, 1940	An Act to Control and Regulate the Immigration of Aliens Into the Philippines.
Commonwealth Act No. 612 August 29, 1940	An Act to Amend Commonwealth Act Numbered Five Hundred and Sixty-Six, Entitled "An Act Appropriating Six Million One Hundred thousand Pesos for Public Works."
Commonwealth Act No. 611 August 29, 1940	An Act to Amend Commonwealth Act Numbered Four Hundred and Sixty-Nine Entitled "An Act Apprropriating Eight Million One Hundred Eighty thousand Pesos for Public Works", as Amended.
Commonwealth Act No. 610 August 29, 1940	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. 609 August 29, 1940	An Act to Amend Commonwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred and Forty, Entitled "An Act Appropriating Five Million Fifty thousand Pesos for Elementary School Buildings."
Commonwealth Act No. 608 August 22, 1940	An Act to Revise Commonwealth Act Numbered Four Hundred and Sixty-One. Entitled "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. 607 August 22, 1940	An Act Providing for the Organization of the Commission on Elections.
Commonwealth Act No. 606 August 22, 1940	An Act to Regulate the Transfer of Vessels and of Shipping Facilities and to Provide Penalties for the VIolation thereof.
Commonwealth Act No. 605 August 22, 1940	An Act to Provide Pensions for Veterans of the Past Philippine Revolutions or Wars, to Create a Board of Pensions for Veterans, and to Appropriate Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 604 August 22, 1940	An Act to Amend Certain Sections of the Charter of the City of Iloilo.
Commonwealth Act No. 603 August 22, 1940	An Act to Amend Sections Seventeen Hundred and Ninety-Five and Seventeen Hundred and Ninety-Six-B of the Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 602 August 19, 1940	An Act to Further Amend Article Five of Chapter One of the Administrative Code as Amended By Act Numbered Forty-Two Hundred and Fifty-Eight, and to Provide Penalties for the Unlawful Use of the Arms and Great Seal of the Government of the Philippines or the Commission of Any Act to Dishonor or Ridicule the Same.
Commonwealth Act No. 601 August 19, 1940	An Act to Regulate the Establishment, Maintenance and Operation of Places of Amusement in Chartered Cities, Municipalities and Municipal Districts.
Commonwealth Act No. 600 August 19, 1940	An Act Declaring a state of Emergency and Authorizing the President to Promulgate Rules and Regulations to Safeguard the Integrity of the Philippines and to Insure the Tranquillity of Its Inhabitants.
Commonwealth Act No. 599 August 19, 1940	An Act to Amend Sections One, three, Four, Five, Six,Seven, and Eight of Commonwealth Act Numbered three Hundred Ninety-Six, Entitled An Act Providing for the Levying of Special Assessments to Cover the Cost of the Construction, Improvement or Repair of National Roads Within the City of Manila" By Making the Same Applicable to Certain Municipalities and All Chartered Cities.
Commonwealth Act No. 598 August 19, 1940	An Act Relating to the Procedure in the Administrative Discipline of Subordinate Officers and Employees in the Civil Service and Creating a Civil Service Board of Appeals.
Commonwealth Act No. 597 August 19, 1940	An Act to Amend Purpose VI of Section Ninety-Seven of Commonwealth Act Numbered One, as Amended By Section thirty-Nine of Commonwealth Act Numbered Five Hundred and Sixty-Nine.
Commonwealth Act No. 596 August 19, 1940	An Act Providing for the Verification Free of Charge By Justices of the Peace as Notaries Ex-Officio, and for Registration Free of Charge By Register of Deeds, of Instruments of Mortgage, Transfer Ob Incumbrance of Any Nature, Executed By a Member of a Cooperative Association in Favor of the Latter.
Commonwealth Act No. 595 August 19, 1940	An Act to Authorize the Philippine Charity Sweepstake Office to Hold Annually One Special Sweepstake Race for the Benefit of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines and Another for the Benefit of the Philippine Amateur Athletic Federation.
Commonwealth Act No. 594 August 19, 1940	An Act to Authorize the President of the Philippines to Grant Retirement Gratuity to the Estate of Lorenzo Palileo.
Commonwealth Act No. 593 August 19, 1940	An Act to Suspend the Effect of Sections three and Four of Commonwealth Act Number Ed Five Hundred and Sixty-Seven, for the Year Beginning July First, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Nine, and Ending June thirty, Nineteen Hundred and Forty, Insofar as they Affect Owners or Persons in Control of Sugar Lands.
Commonwealth Act No. 592 August 19, 1940	An Act to Create the City of Dansalan.
Commonwealth Act No. 591 August 19, 1940	An Act to Create a Bureau of the Census and statistics, to Consolidate statistical Activities of the Government therein.
Commonwealth Act No. 590 August 19, 1940	An Act Authorizing the President of the Philippines to Sell or Exchange Certain Government Properties.
Commonwealth Act No. 589 August 19, 1940	An Act Establishing a School Ritual in All Public and Private Elementary and Secondary Schools.
Commonwealth Act No. 588 August 12, 1940	An Act Authorizing the President of the Philippines to Make Temporary Appointments in Certain Public Offices.
Commonwealth Act No. 587 August 07, 1940	An Act Appropriating Nine Million Five Hundred thousand Pesos for Primary and Intermediate Schools.
Commonwealth Act No. 586 August 07, 1940	An Act to Provide for the Revision of the System of Public Elementary Education in the Philippines Including the Financing thereof.
Commonwealth Act No. 585 June 07, 1940	An Act Prohibiting the Exportation of Fibers (Buntal), Seeds or Seedlings of the Plant Commonly Known as the "Buri".
Commonwealth Act No. 584 June 08, 1940	An Act to Extend the Effects of the Provisions of Act Numbered Forty-One Hundred and Sixty-Six, Entitled "An Act to Provide for the Limitation, Regulation, and Allocation of Sugar Produced in the Philippine Islands, and for the Processing and Marketing thereof,And Foe Other Purposes," as Amended.
Commonwealth Act No. 583 June 08, 1940	An Act to Amend Section Sixteen Hundred and Seventy-Four of the Administrative Code, as Amended.
Commonwealth Act No. 582 June 08, 1940	An Act Changing the Name of the Barrio of Bucaobucao, Municipality of Dao, Province of Antique, to that of Ysulat.
Commonwealth Act No. 581 June 08, 1940	An Act Abolishing the Existing Municipal Governments and the Provincial Government of Romblon, and Cheating Instead Four Special Municipalities.
Commonwealth Act No. 580 June 08, 1940	An Act Granting the "Cotabato Light and Power Company, Inc" An Extension of thirty Days After the Approval of this Act to Accept the Franchise Granted thereto By Commonwealth Act Numbered Four Hundred Eighty-Seven.
Commonwealth Act No. 579 June 08, 1940	An Act Changing the Name of the Barrio of Balug0. Municipality of Guinayangan, Province of Tayabas, to that of Laurel.
Commonwealth Act No. 578 June 08, 1940	An Act to Amend Article One Hundred Fifty-Two of the Revised Penal Code, So as to Include Teachers, Professors, and Persons Charged With the Supervision of Public or Duly Recognized Private Schools, Colleges, and Universities, Within the Term "Persons in Authority."
Commonwealth Act No. 577 June 08, 1940	An Act Authorizing His Excellency, Manuel L. .Quezon, President of the Philippines, to Accept the Decoration Known as the "Grand'Croix De L'Ordre De La Couronne". Conferred Upon Him By His Majesty, Leopold IIi, King of the Belgians.
Commonwealth Act No. 576 June 08, 1940	An Act Changing the Name of Toe Barrio of Nueva Coveta, in Burgos, Ilocos Sur, to Luna.
Commonwealth Act No. 575 June 08, 1940	An Act Changing the Name of the Barrio of Batobato, Municipality of Cuyo, Province of Palawan, to that of Los Angeles.
Commonwealth Act No. 574 June 08, 1940	An Act Changing the Name of the Barrio of Longos, Pililla, Rizal, to that of Malaya.
Commonwealth Act No. 573 June 08, 1940	An Act Changing the Name of the Barrio of Macaucang Municipality of Naujan, Province of Mindoro, to that of Aurora.
Commonwealth Act No. 572 June 08, 1940	An Act Changing the Name of the Municipal District of Dalig, Province of Isabela, to that of "Aurora."
Commonwealth Act No. 571 June 07, 1940	An Act to Amend Section One of Act Numbered thirty-Eight Hundred and Forty-Six Entitled "An Act Providing for the Regulations of Radio stations and Radio Communications in the Philippine Islands, and for Other Purposes," Requiring the Grant of a Franchise From the National Assembly for the Establishment And/Or Operation of Radio Broadcasting stations.
Commonwealth Act No. 570 June 07, 1940	An Act Making the Filipino National Language An Official Language From the Fourth of July, Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Six.
Commonwealth Act No. 569 June 07, 1940	An Act to Amend Sections Four, Nine, Eleven, thirteen, Eighteen, Nineteen, Twenty-One, Twenty-Two, Twenty-three, Twenty-Five, Twenty-Seven, Twenty-Nine, thirty-One, Forty-Nine, Fifty, Fifty-Two, Fifty-Six, Fifty-Nine, Sixty-One, Seventy-One, Seventy-Two, Seventy-three, Seventy-Six, Seventy-Eight, Seventy-Nine, Eighty-three, Eighty-Four, Eighty-Five, Eighty-Seven, Eighty-Eight, Eighty-Nine, Ninety, Ninety-One, Ninety-Two, Ninety-Four, and Ninety-Seven of Commonwealth Act Numbered One as Amended, Known as the National Defence Act, Repealing Section Twenty-Four thereof and Inserting Two New Sections in the Said Act to Be Known as Sections Seventy-Eight-A and Ninety-B.
Commonwealth Act No. 568 June 07, 1940	An Act to Amend Commonwealth Act Numbered Fifty-Seven, Known as the Charter of the City of Iloilo, as Amended By Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred and Fifty-Eight, By Increasing the Salaries of the City Treasurer, the Chief of Police and Fire Department, and the Clerk of the Municipal Court of Said City.
Commonwealth Act No. 567 June 07, 1940	An Act to Adjust and stabilize the Sugar Industry and to Raise Revenue for the Purpose By Increasing the Tax on the Manufacture of Sugar and Imposing a Tax on the Owners of Sugar Lands Held By Others Under Lease or Other Contract Granting the Right to Use Said Lands for a Consideration.
Commonwealth Act No. 566 June 07, 1940	An Act Appropriating Six Million One Hundred thousand Pesos for Public Works
Commonwealth Act No. 565 June 07, 1940	An Act Providing for the Organization of Cooperative Associations, Authorizing Toe Creation of An Agency or Designation of An Instrumentality of the Government to Promote and Supervise the Said Associations, .And Raiding Funds for the Promotion and Supervision of the Same.
Commonwealth Act No. 564 June 07, 1940	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," as Amended.
Commonwealth Act No. 563 June 07, 1940	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. 562 June 07, 1940	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. 561 June 07, 1940	An Act to Create a Department of Health and Welfare in the City of Manila, to Define Its Powers and Duties Amending for this Purpose. Certain Sections of Chapter Sixty of the Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 560 June 07, 1940	An Act to Provide Security Against Fraud in the Kind of Sawn Lumber Offered for Sale.
Commonwealth Act No. 559 June 07, 1940	An Act to Amend Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred and three, as Amended.
Commonwealth Act No. 558 June 07, 1940	An Act to Amend Sections One and Two of Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred and Fifty. Entitled An Act to Provide for the Payment of Longevity Pay to Commissioned Officers of the Army of the United states Joining the Army of the Philippines and to Include Service in the Army of the United states And/Or in the United states Military or Naval Academy in Determining the Pay and Rights of Retirement of Commissioned Officers in the Army of the Philippines."
Commonwealth Act No. 557 June 07, 1940	An Act to Amend Section Four of Commonwealth Act Numbered Four Hunched and Sixty-Five, Otherwise Known as the Residence Tax Law.
Commonwealth Act No. 556 June 07, 1940	An Act to Amend Act Numbered thirty-Nine Hundred and Ninety-Two, Known as "the Revised Motor Vehicle Law, "As Amended.
Commonwealth Act No. 555 June 06, 1940	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-One.
Commonwealth Act No. 554 May 26, 1940	An Act to Liquidate the Municipal Loan Fund, the Private Surveyors' Loan Fund, and the Friar Lands Loan Fund.
Commonwealth Act No. 553 May 26, 1940	An Act to Authorize the President of the Philippines to Permit the Entry By the National Development Company of All or Portions of Reserved Lands or Mineral Rights in Lands.
Commonwealth Act No. 552 May 26, 1940	An Act Appropriating Amounts From the Coconut Oil Excise Tax Fund Collected on and After January First, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Nine, for the Fiscal Year Ending June thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Forty-One.
Commonwealth Act No. 551 May 26, 1940	An Act to Authorize the President of the Philippines to Enter Into a Compromise in the Case Arising Out of the Probate of the Will of the Late Don Francisco R. Santos.
Commonwealth Act No. 550 May 26, 1940	An Act to Authorize the Philippine Charity Sweepstake Office to Hold Special Sweepstake Races the Proceeds of Which Shall Be Used to Finance the Holding of An Exposition in the Philippines in Nineteen Hundred and Forty-One.
Commonwealth Act No. 549 May 26, 1940	An Act Creating .the Position of Deputy Commissioner of the Budget and Appropriating the Necessary Amount therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 548 May 26, 1940	An Act to Regulate and Control the Use of and Traffic on National Roads as Well as Constructions Along the Same, Prescribing Penalties Fob the VIolation thereof.
Commonwealth Act No. 547 May 26, 1940	An Act Creating the City of Cavite
Commonwealth Act No. 546 May 26, 1940	An Act to Attend Sections Two and Four of Act Numbered Forty-One Hundred thirty, as Amended, By Regulating Presentation, Registration., and Entry of Race Horses, and Making Available Certain Portion of Its Proceeds for the Payment of Pensions to Veterans of Philippine Revolutions or Wars.
Commonwealth Act No. 545 May 26, 1940	An Act Amending the Administrative Code to Inc3Ease the Number of Judges of First Instance, to Regroup Some of the Provinces for Judicial Purposes, and Appropriating the Necessary Rinds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 544 May 26, 1940	An Act to Create Eight Positions of District Attorneys, Appropriating the Necessary Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 543 May 26, 1940	An Act to Amend Section One thousand Six Hundred and Fifty-Nine of the Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 542 May 26, 1940	An Act to Create a Corporation to Be Known As. the Girl Scouts of the Philippines, and to Define Its Powers and Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 541 May 26, 1940	An Act to Regulate the Awarding of Contracts for the Construction or Repair of Public Works.
Commonwealth Act No. 540 May 26, 1940	An Act to Alter the Times and Places of Holding Sessions of Courts of First Instance in the Provinces of Isabela, Nueva VIzcaya, Capiz, and Surigao, By Amending Certain Paragraphs of Section One Hundred and Sixty-One of the Administrative Code, as Amended.
Commonwealth Act No. 539 May 26, 1940	An Act Authorizing the President of the Philippines to Acquire Private Lands for Resale in Small Lots; Providing for the Creation of An Agency to Carry Out the Purposes of this Act; and Setting Aside Funds and Authorizing the Issuance of Bonds for the Payment of Said Lands.
Commonwealth Act No. 538 May 26, 1940	An Act to Suspend the Effects of Any Action for Ejectment Instituted Against Tenants or Holders of Estates or Chapllaincies (Capellanias) Much the Government May Seek to Acquire through Purchase or Expropriation Proceedings.
Commonwealth Act No. 537 May 26, 1940	An Act to Amend Section Twenty-Four Hundred and Sixty-Five of the Administrative Code, as Amended, to standardize the Salaries of Assistant Fiscals for the City of Manila.
Commonwealth Act No. 536 May 26, 1940	An Act Authorizing the Retirement of Justices of the Supreme Court and Making-Appropriation for the Payment of a Retirement Gratuity.
Commonwealth Act No. 535 May 26, 1940	An Act to Exempt Certain Persons From the Requirement to Make a Declaration of Intention, Prior. to Filing An Application .For Naturalization, Amending thereby Section Six of Commonwealth Act Numbered Four Hundred and Seventy-three.
Commonwealth Act No. 534 May 26, 1940	An Act to Declare Ineffective the Reduction of the Assessed Value of All Permanent Plants And/Or Trees on Any Taxable Real Property in Any Province By Fifty Per Cent Pending the New Assessment therein, and to Repeal the Proviso Contained in the Second Paragraph of Section Fifty-three of Commonwealth Act Numbered Four Hundred and Seventy, Known as the "Assessment Law."
Commonwealth Act No. 533 May 26, 1940	An Act to Amend Paragraph (D) of Section Twenty-Five Hundred and Fifty and Section Twenty-Five Hundred and Fifty-Two of the Administrative Code as Amended, So as to Vest the Mayor of the City of Baguio With Veto Power and the Council of Said City With Power to Override Such Veto.
Commonwealth Act No. 532 May 26, 1940	An Act to Fix the Salary of the Auditor General At Fifteen thousand Pesos Per Annum.
Commonwealth Act No. 531 May 11, 1940	An Act Changing the Name of the Barrio of Maloconan, Municipality of Tolong, Province of Oriental Negros, to that of San Francisco.
Commonwealth Act No. 530 May 11, 1940	An Act to Change the Procedure in the Assessment of Real Property for Taxation Purposes, By Requiring the Owner to File a Sworn statement as to the. Real Value thereof and Creating a Central Board of Tax Appeals.
Commonwealth Act No. 529 May 11, 1940	An Act Amending Sections three, Six, and Seven of Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred Sixty-Eight, Known as the Civil Aviation Law, and Inserting Section Six and One-Half in the Same.
Commonwealth Act No. 528 May 11, 1940	An Act to Provide for the Issue of Bonds of the Government of the Philippines the Proceeds of Sale of Which Will Be Used for the Purchase of An Equivalent Amount of Bonds of the Metropolitan, Water District.
Commonwealth Act No. 527 May 11, 1940	An Act Changing the Name of the Municipality of Bondo, Province of Tayabas, to that Of-"Aurora."
Commonwealth Act No. 526 May 10, 1940	An Act to Amend Section Two Hundred and Four of the National International Revenue Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 525 May 10, 1940	An Act to Repeal Subsection (B) of Section One Hund8Ed and Eighty-Four and to Amend Subsection (A) of Section One Hundred-And Eighty-Five of Commonwealth Act Numbered Four Hundred and Sixty-Six.
Commonwealth Act No. 524 May 10, 1940	An Act Amending Section One of Commonwealth Act Numbered Four Hundred and Sixty-Four, Entitled "An Act to Remit, Under Certain Conditions, Unpaid Taxes and Penalties of Forfeited Real Property," to Provide a New Time Limit for the Payment of the Taxes Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Eight and Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Nine.
Commonwealth Act No. 523 May 10, 1940	An Act to Amend Section Two Hundred and Fifty-Five of the National Internal Revenue Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 522 May 07, 1940	An Act to Amend Section One of Act Numbered thirty-Seven Hundred and Ninety-Nine.
Commonwealth Act No. 521 May 07, 1940	An Act Appropriating Amounts From the Coconut Oil Excise Tax Fund Collected on and After January First, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Nine, for the Period From January First, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Nine, to June thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Forty.
Commonwealth Act No. 520 May 07, 1940	An Act Creating the City of San Pablo
Commonwealth Act No. 519 May 07, 1940	An Act to Establish the National Tobacco Corporation
Commonwealth Act No. 518 May 07, 1940	An Act to Establish the National Coconut Corporation
Commonwealth Act No. 517 April 25, 1940	An Act to Submit to the Filipino People, for Approval or Disapproval, the Amendments to the Constitution of the Philippines and the Ordinance Appended thereto, Proposed By the National.Assembly. in Its Numbered thirty-Eight, Adopted on September Fifteen, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Nine, as Amended By Its Numbered Seventy-three..Adopted on April Eleven, Nineteen Hundred and Forty,'And To:Appropriate Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 516 April 18, 1940	An Act to Amend Subsection (U) of Section Eighty-Four of Commonwealth Act Numbered Four Hundred and Sixty-Six, Otherwise Known as the National Internal Revenue Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 515 March 22, 1940	An Act to Amend Section Nine of Act Numbered Four thousand Two Hundred and Five, Entitled "An Act Authorizing the Municipality of Iloilo, in the Province of Iloilo, to Issue Bonds for the Purpose of Providing Funds to Construct Necessary Sewer Facility in Said Municipality, and Authorizing Also Lan Insular Government Bond Issue Secured By Said Municipal Bonds, And.For Other Purposes."
Commonwealth Act No. 514 March 12, 1940	An Act to Amend the Second Paragraph of Section Two Hundred and thirty-three of the Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 513 February 08, 1940	An Act Appropriating Five Hundred thousand Pesos to Be Advanced to Municipalities and Municipal Districts for the Maintenance of Intermediate Schools.
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