COMMONWEALTH ACTS



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Commonwealth Act No. 733
July 03, 1946
An Act to Accept the Executive Agreement to Be Entered Into Between the President of the Philippines and the President of the United states Pursuant to Title IV of Public Law 371-79th Congress, Approved on April 30, 1946, Entitled "An Act to Provide for the Trade Relations Between the United states and the Philippines, and for Other Purposes" and to Authorize the President of the Philippines to Formally Execute the Same on or After July 4, 1946; to Enact the Provisions of Parts 2, 3, 4, and 5 of Title IIi of the Said Act of Congress as Laws of the Philippines During the Effectiveness of the Said Executive Agreement; and to Implement the Penal Clauses of Said Agreement in Order to Carry Out Title I of the Phili[[Ine Rehabilitation Act of 1946.
Commonwealth Act No. 732
July 03, 1946
An Act to Create the Department of Foreign Affairs and to Authorize the President of the Philippines to Organize Said Department as Well as the Foreign Service of the Republic of the Philippines.
Commonwealth Act No. 731
July 03, 1946
An Act to Amend Sections Eighteen and Nineteen of Article V, Book I of the Revised Administrative Code, as Amended.
Commonwealth Act No. 730
July 02, 1946
An Act Authorizing the President of the Philippines to Liquidate the Financial Interests Protection Bond Fund and Applying the Proceeds thereof to Any Deficiency in the Sinking Fund for All Outstanding Bonds Issued By the Philippine Government, Its Provinces, Cities, and Municipalities Prior to May First, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Four.
Commonwealth Act No. 729
July 02, 1946
An Act to Authorize the President of the Philippines to Grant Temporary Permits to Construct, Install, Establish and Operate in the Philippines Radio Transmitting stations, Radio Receiving stations for Commercial Purposes, Television or Radio Broadcasting stations.
Commonwealth Act No. 728
July 02, 1946
An Act to Prohibit Certain Exports From the Philippines, to Authorize the President of the Philippines to Regulate, Control, Curtail and Prohibit Said Exports, to Provide Penalties for the VIolation of this Act and of Regulations Issued Pursuant thereto, and for Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 727
January 18, 1946
An Act Governing thepayment of Monetary Obligations Incurred or Contracted Prior to and During the Japanese Invasion of the Philippines, and for Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 726
January 15, 1946
An Act to Provide for the Rehabilitation of Philippine Banks, Appropriating Funds for that End, and for Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 725
January 05, 1946
An Act to Provide for the Next Election for President and VIce-President of the Philippines, Senators and Members of the House of Representatives, and Appropriating the Necessary Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 724
November 14, 1945
An Act Amending Sections One thousand Six Hundred and Twenty-Two and One thousand Six Hundred and Twenty-Four of the Administrative Code, as Amended.
Commonwealth Act No. 723
November 03, 1945
An Act Appropriating Funds for the Operation of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines During the Period From October First, Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Five to June thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Six.
Commonwealth Act No. 722
November 01, 1945
An Act to Extend the Period for the Filing of Returns and the Payment of Taxes Under Commonwealth Act Numbered Four Hundred and Sixty-Six, Otherwise Known as the National Internal Revenue Code, as Amendfed, and Other Laws Administered By the Bureau of Internal Revenue, and for Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 721
November 01, 1945
An Act to Appropriate the Sum of Five Hundred thousand Pesos to Buy And/Or Import Animals for Breeding Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 720
November 01, 1945
An Act Providing for the Extension of Time
Commonwealth Act No. 719
November 01, 1945
An Act to Rehabilitate the Cadastral Survey Revolving Fund
Commonwealth Act No. 718
November 01, 1945
An Act Appropriating the Sum of Two Million Nine Hundred Forty-One thousand Pesos From the Coconut Oil Excise Tax Fund Collected on and After January First, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Nine, for Certain Activities Under the Department of Agriculture and Commerce, for the Fiscal Year Ending June thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Six.
Commonwealth Act No. 717
November 01, 1945
An Act Appropriating Additional Sums for the Operation of the Philippine Army for the Fiscal Year Ending June thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Six.
Commonwealth Act No. 716
November 01, 1945
An Act Creating the Philippine Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Commonwealth Act No. 715
November 01, 1945
An Act to Create a Commission on Reparations
Commonwealth Act No. 714
November 01, 1945
An Act Providing for a Bonus for Public School Teachers and Other Low-Salaried Employees Embraced in Grades 10-7 of the Salary Scale and Setting Aside the Necessary Amount for the Purpose.
Commonwealth Act No. 713
November 01, 1945
An Act to Amend Section Five of Commonwealth Act Numbered Five Hundred Sixty-Five Entitled "An Act Providing for the Organization of Cooperative Associations, Authorizing the Creation of An Agency or Designation of An Agency or Designation of An Instrumentality of the Government to Promote and Supervise the Said Associations, and Providing Funds for the Promotion and Supervision of the Same."
Commonwealth Act No. 712
November 01, 1945
An Act Appropriating Four Million Seven Hundred Fifty-Six thousand and Seven Hundred Eighty Pesos for the Reconstruction, Repairs and Maintenance of Radio stations and Installations, and Telegraph Lines and stations.
Commonwealth Act No. 711
November 01, 1945
An Act Appropriating the Sum of Five Million Pesos to Enable the National Land Settlement Administration to Resume Its Functions.
Commonwealth Act No. 710
November 01, 1945
An Act to Appropriate Funds to Continue the Payment of Retirement Gratuities or Pensions Under Existing Laws.
Commonwealth Act No. 709
November 01, 1945
An Act Appropriating the Sum of Five Million Pesos to Enable the National Housing Commission to Resume Its Functions.
Commonwealth Act No. 708
November 01, 1945
An Act Granting a Gratuity to the Widow of the Late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Jose Abad Santos, and Appropriating Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 707
November 01, 1945
An Act to Rehabilitate the Manila Railroad Company, Appropriating Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 706
November 01, 1945
An Act Providing for the Payment of the Life Insurance Policies Issued By the Government Insurance System and Appropriating Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 705
November 01, 1945
An Act Appropriating Funds as Aid to National, Provincial and City Hospitals and their Dispensaries.
Commonwealth Act No. 704
November 01, 1945
An Act to Establish Municipal Maternity and Charity Clinic
Commonwealth Act No. 703
November 01, 1945
An Act to Remit the Land Tax Due Between the First Semester of the Year Nineteen Hundred and Forty-One and the Second Semester of the Year Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Five; and to Extend the Time Within Which a Former Owner May Repurchase Real Property Bought By a third Party At Public Sale to Cover Delinquent Taxes and Penalties thereon During the Aforesaid Period.
Commonwealth Act No. 702
November 01, 1945
An Act Changing the Name of the Barrio of Monreal, Municipality of San Jacinto, Province of Masbate, to that of "Ago".
Commonwealth Act No. 701
November 01, 1945
An Act Appropriating the Sum of Five Hundred thousand Pesos for the Resumption of the Activities and Functions Relative to the Protection of Early Infancy, Maternity, and Child Health.
Commonwealth Act No. 700
November 01, 1945
An Act Appropriating the Sum of Ten Million Pesos for the Development of Hydraulic Power From the Maria Cristina Falls, Province of Lanao, and for the Construction, Operation, and Maintenance of Hydraulic Power Plant therein.
Commonwealth Act No. 699
November 20, 1945
An Act to Provide for the Participation of the Commonwealth of the Philippines in the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Appropriating Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 698
October 15, 1945
An Act Reorganizing the Police Department of the City of Manila; Creating a Merit and Trial Board; Exempting the Manila Police Department From Civil Service Rules and Regulations; Amending Section Twenty-Four Hundred and Sixty of the Revised Administrative Code, and for Other Purpose.
Commonwealth Act No. 697
October 15, 1945
An Act for the Rehabilitation,Liquidation, and Dissolution of Delinquent Insurers, Amending for the Purpose Secretion One Hundred and Seventy-Fivive of Act Numbered Twenty-Four Hundred and Twenty-Seven, as Amended By Act Numbered thirty-One Hundred and Fifty-Two.
Commonwealth Act No. 696
October 15, 1945
An Act to Amend Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred and Four, Entitled "An Act Authorizing the Secretary of Labor to Promulgate and Enforce Rules, Regulations and Orders for the Safety of Persons Employed in Mines, Quarries, Metallurgical Operations and Other Enterprises."
Commonwealth Act No. 695
October 15, 1945
An Act Creating a Bureau of Labor Under the Administrative Supervision of the Department of Labor and Appropriating Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 694
October 15, 1945
An Act Creating the Agricultural Machinery and Equipment Corporation
Commonwealth Act No. 693
October 15, 1945
An Act to Provide for a Life Pension for Dona Aurora Aragon De Quezon, Widow of the Late President Manuel L. Quezon.
Commonwealth Act No. 692
October 15, 1945
An Act to Convert the Municipal District of Allacapan, Province of Cagayan, Into a Municipality, Transferring a Part of Its Territorial Jurisdiction to the Municipality of Ballesteros, Province of Cagayan.
Commonwealth Act No. 691
October 15, 1945
An Act to Provide for the Free Distibution, Under Certain Conditions, of Lots of Twenty-Four Hectares Each of Agricultural Land of the Public Domain.
Commonwealth Act No. 690
October 15, 1945
An Act Tto Change the Name of the Municipality of Indan, Province of Camarines Norte, to "VInzons."
Commonwealth Act No. 689
October 15, 1945
An Act to Penalize Speculation or Rents of Buildings Destined for Dwelling Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 688
October 15, 1945
An Act Fixing a Limited Period Within Which Notes of the Philippine National Bank Should Be Presented to Be stamped or Counterdesigned in Accordance With Provisions Hereof, Declaring Null and Void All Notes Not stamped or Countersigned as Herein Provided After the Expiration of Said Period, and Penalizing Its Infringement.
Commonwealth Act No. 687
September 26, 1945
An Act Authorizing the Separation of the Subprovince of Catanduanes From the Province of Albay and Its Establishment as An Independent Province.
Commonwealth Act No. 686
September 26, 1945
An Act Declaring as Bonus the three Months Advance Pay Authorized in Administrative Order Numbered One Hundred Sixty-Seven, Dated December Twelve, Nineteen Hundred and Forty-One, of the President of the Philippines, and in Commonwealth Act Numbered Six Hundred Seventy-Six.
Commonwealth Act No. 685
September 26, 1945
An Act Appropriating the Sum of Two Hundred thousand Pesos for the Control of Venereal Diseases.
Commonwealth Act No. 684
September 26, 1945
An Act to Amend Commonwealth Act Numbered Six Hundred and Seventy-Five So as to Include Payment Under Said Act of Amounts Due to Any Other Deceased Civilians for Supplies Furnished or Services Rendered Under the Laws of the United states.
Commonwealth Act No. 683
September 25, 1945
An Act to Organize the Office of Foreign Relations and for Other Purpose
Commonwealth Act No. 682
September 25, 1945
An Act Cvreating a People'S Court and An Office of Special Prosecutors for the Prosecution and Trial of Crimes Against National Security Committed During the Second World War, and for Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 681
September 24, 1945
An Act to Appropriate Funds for the Immediate Rehabilitation of the Philippine Tuberculosis Society, Including the Quezon Institute, and of Other Agencies Engaged in the Fight Against and the Control of Tubercolosis.
Commonwealth Act No. 680
September 18, 1945
An Act Amending Section One of Commonwealth Act Numbered Six Hundred and Seventy-Four Entitled "An Act Appropriating Funds for the Operation of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines Beginning July First, Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Five Until the General Appropriation Act for the Fiscal Year Ending June thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Six Approved."
Commonwealth Act No. 679
September 12, 1945
An Act Changing the Name of Balete Pass to Dalton Pass
Commonwealth Act No. 678
August 13, 1945
An Act Providing the Manner of Dividing the Senators Into three Groups, Authorizing them to Hold Over Until the Election of their Successors, and Repealing Section Nine of Commonwealth Act Numbered Six Hundred and Sixty Six.
Commonwealth Act No. 677
July 31, 1945
An Act to Amend Section Eleven Hundred and Fifty-One of the Revised Administrative Code, as Amended By Act Numbered thirty-One Hundred and Six, and Commonwealth Acts Numbered One Hundred and Seventy-Five and Six Hundred and Sixty-Eight, By Adding Tacloban, Province of Leyte as Port of Entry, and Appropriating Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 676
July 28, 1945
An Act Authorizing the Payment of three Months' Advance Pay of Officials, Employees and Laborers of the Commonwealth Government Who Have Not Received Same At the Outbreak of the War.
Commonwealth Act No. 675
July 24, 1945
An Act Providing for the Immediate Payment of Salaries and Allowances of Deceased Filipino Members of the United states Army, United states Navy. Philippine Scouts, Philippine Army, Including Duly Recognized Guerrilla Organizations, and Civilian Employees of the War and Navy Departments, and Other Departments of the United states Government and of the Phil­Ippine Army.
Commonwealth Act No. 674
July 24, 1945
An Act Appropriating Funds for the Operation of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines Beginning July First, Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Five Until the General Appropriation Act for the Fiscal Year Ending June thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Six Is Approved.
Commonwealth Act No. 673
July 24, 1945
An Act to Place the Bureau of Immigration Under the Supervision and Control of the Department of Labor.
Commonwealth Act No. 672
July 19, 1945
An Act to Rehabilitate the Philippine National Bank
Commonwealth Act No. 671
December 16, 1941
An Act Declaring a state of Total Emergency as a Result of War Involving the Philippines and Authorizing the President to Promulgate Rules and Regulations to Meet Such Emergency.
Commonwealth Act No. 670
December 12, 1941
An Act Appropriating All Unexpended Balances of the General Fund and Authorizing the Transfer to the Said General Fund of the Unexpected Balances of All Special Funds in the Philippine Treasury for the National Defense Of, and the Protection of the Civillian Population In, the Philippines, and for Other Purposes Connected With the Present Emergency.
Commonwealth Act No. 669
June 22, 1941
An Act to Provide for the Apportionment of the Gross Proceeds of the Real Property Tax on Machineries Used in Sugar Centrals, Mills, or Refineries, Amending for this Purpose, Sections Four and Five of Commonwealth Act Numbered Four Hundred and Seventy, Known as the "Assessment Law".
Commonwealth Act No. 668
June 22, 1941
An Act to Amend Section Eleven Hundred and Fifty-One of the Administrative Code, as Amended By Act Numbered thirty-One Hundred and Six, and Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred Seventy-Five Adding Cagayan, Province of Misamis Oriental, as Port of Entry.
Commonwealth Act No. 667
June 22, 1941
An Act to Grant to Ruperto A. VIllareal a Franchise for An Electric Light, Heat, and Power System in the Municipality of Mambusao, Province of Capiz.
Commonwealth Act No. 666
June 22, 1941
An Act to Provide for the First Election for President and VIce-President of the Philippines, Senators, and Members of the House of Representatives, Under the Constitution and the Amendments thereof.
Commonwealth Act No. 665
June 22, 1941
An Act Amending Paragraph (D) of Section Twenty-Five Hundred and Fifty of the Administrative Code as Amended.
Commonwealth Act No. 664
June 22, 1941
An Act to Grant to Jesusa VIuda De Arroyo a Franchise for An Electric Light, Heat, and Power System in Midsayap, Cotabato.
Commonwealth Act No. 663
June 22, 1941
An Act to Grant to Aurella S. De Intengan a Franchise for An Electric Light, Heat, and Power System in the Municipality of Balamban, Province of Cebu.
Commonwealth Act No. 662
June 22, 1941
An Act to Grant to the Hawaii-Boholanos Agricultural & Commercial Co., Ltd., a Franchise to Install, Operate and Maintain An Electric Light, Heat, and Power System in the Municipality of Tubigon, Province of Bohol.
Commonwealth Act No. 661
June 22, 1941
An Act to Create An Additional Branch of the Court of First Instance of Acagayan in the First Judicial District.
Commonwealth Act No. 660
June 21, 1941
An Act Authorizing the Abolition of the Department of the Interior
Commonwealth Act No. 659
June 21, 1941
An Act to Amend Sections Two, three, Twelve, Nineteen, Twenty, Twenty-One, Twenty-Four, and Twenty-Seven of Commonwealth Act Numbered Five Hundred and Two, and Inserting New Sections therein, to Be Known as Sections thirteen-A, Twenty-One-A, Twenty-One-B, Twenty-One-C, Twenty-One-D, Twenty-One-E, Twenty-One-F, and Twenty-One-G.
Commonwealth Act No. 658
June 21, 1941
An Act Appropriating Fifteen Million Seven Hundred Sixty thousand Five Hundred Pesos for Public Works.
Commonwealth Act No. 657
June 21, 1941
An Act to Reorganize the Commission on Elections.
Commonwealth Act No. 656
June 21, 1941
An Act Amending Paragraph three of Section Seven of Commonwealth Act Numbered Five Hundred Eighty-Six, Known as the Educational Act of Nineteen Hundred Forty.
Commonwealth Act No. 655
June 21, 1941
An Act to Permit the Sale of Meat of Animals Slaughtered in the National Slaughterhouses in Any Place, Without Paying Extra Fees or Levies of Any Kind.
Commonwealth Act No. 654
June 21, 1941
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-Two.
Commonwealth Act No. 653
June 21, 1941
An Act to Require the Registration and Finger­Printing of Aliens.
Commonwealth Act No. 652
June 16, 1941
An Act to Amend Subsections (C) and (D) of Section Eight, Article Two, Chapter Two, of Act Numbered thirty-Nine Hundred and Ninety-Two, as Amended.
Commonwealth Act No. 651
June 16, 1941
An Act Authorizing the Province of Rizal and Twelve Municipalities thereof to Issue Bonds for the Purpose of Providing Funds for Permanent Improvements.
Commonwealth Act No. 650
June 16, 1941
An Act Amending Section One of Commonwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred and Twenty-three and Appropriating three Hundred thousand Pesos as Additional Fund for the Award of Increased Air Mail Contracts.
Commonwealth Act No. 649
June 16, 1941
An Act to Reduce the Contribution of Provinces and Municipalities to the Agricultural Fund.
Commonwealth Act No. 648
June 16, 1941
An Act Creating the National Housing Commission
Commonwealth Act No. 647
June 11, 1941
An Act to Grant Maternity Leave to Married Women Who Are in the Service of the Government or of Any of Its Instrumentalities.
Commonwealth Act No. 646
June 11, 1941
An Act Providing for the Establishment of Cinchona Plantations in Public Forest Lands.
Commonwealth Act No. 645
June 11, 1941
An Act to Amend Subsection (C), Section Twenty-Two, of Commonwealth Act Numbered One, Otherwise Known as the National Defense Act, as Amended By Commonwealth Act Numbered Five Hundred Sixty-Nine.
Commonwealth Act No. 644
June 11, 1941
An Act Authorizing the Pan American Airways Company to Sell, Assign or Otherwise Transfer Its Franchise and All Property and Rights Acquired Under Act Numbered Forty-Two Hundred and Forty-Nine in Favor of the Pan American Airways Incorporated.
Commonwealth Act No. 643
June 11, 1941
An Act Authorizing the Transfer to the "Philippine Airlines, Incorporated," of the Franchise of the "Philippine Aerial Taxi Company, Incorporated," to Operate An Aerial Transportation Service in the Philippines.
Commonwealth Act No. 642
June 11, 1941
An Act to Amend Sections Eight and Ten of Act Numbered thirty-Two Hundred and Twenty-Two, Entitled "An Act Granting Authority to the Province of Iloilo and Certain Municipalities thereof to Issue Bonds for the Purpose of Providing Funds for Permanent Public Improvements, and Authorizing the Issue of Bonds of Of the Insular Government Secured By Bonds of Said Province and Municipalities, and for Other Purposes."
Commonwealth Act No. 641
June 11, 1941
An Act to Amend Section Twenty-One of the Administrative Code as Amended Bi Commonwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred and Seventy.
Commonwealth Act No. 640
June 10, 1941
An Act Extending the Periods of Time During Which the Appropriations Authorized in Item I-IV (F' Commonwealth Act Numbered Five Hundred Fifty-Five, and in Section One of Commonwealth Act Numbered Five Hundred Eighty-Seven, Shall Be Available for Expenditure.
Commonwealth Act No. 639
June 10, 1941
An Act to Amend Section One Hundred and thirty-Four of the Administrative Code, as Amended By Commonwealth Act Numbered three.
Commonwealth Act No. 638
June 10, 1941
An Act to Provide for the Uniform Publication An Distribution of the Official Gazette.
Commonwealth Act No. 637
June 10, 1941
An Act to Exempt Non-Resident Citizens of the United states and Corporations Organized Under the Laws of the United states From Certain Taxes.
Commonwealth Act No. 636
June 10, 1941
An Act Amending Sections three and Nine of Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred and Ninety-Two.
Commonwealth Act No. 635
June 10, 1941
An Act Granting Vacation Leave and Sick Leave to Employees of the Bureau of Health Who Are Civil Service Eligibles But Who Receive their Salaries From the Funds Donated for National Clinics of Charity.
Commonwealth Act No. 634
June 10, 1941
An Act to Penalize Disrespect to the Philippine National Anthem, Amending Commonwealth Act Numbered three Hundred and Eighty-Two, Entitled "An Act to Adopt the Original Authentic Form of the Philippine National Anthem and to Appropriate Funds for Its Printing and Free Distribution."
Commonwealth Act No. 633
June 10, 1941
An Act to Authorize the President of the Philippines to Appoint the First Additional Councilors for Municipalities Passing to Higher Class. Further Amending Section Two thousand One Hundred Seventy of the Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 632
June 10, 1941
An Act to Amend Section Five Hundred Fifteen of the Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 631
June 10, 1941
An Act Providing for a New Time Limit for the Filing of Applications for Retirement Under Act Numbered Twenty-Five Hundred Eighty-Nine and Its Amendments.
Commonwealth Act No. 630
June 10, 1941
An Act Amending Act Numbered thirty-Six Hundred and Seventy-three and Repealing Act Numbered Four thousand thirty-One and Commonwealth Acts Numbered One Hundred and Sixty-Six and three Hundred and Forty-Seven.
Commonwealth Act No. 629
June 10, 1941
An Act to Designate the Provincial Sheriff in Provinces Where there Are Chartered Cities as Sheriff Ex-Officio thereof, With Additional Compensation.
Commonwealth Act No. 628
June 10, 1941
An Act Creating a Code Committee
Commonwealth Act No. 627
June 07, 1941
An Act Appropriating Amounts From the Coconut Oil Excise Tax Fund Collected on and After January First, Nine Hundred and thirty-Nine, for the Fiscal Year Ending June thirtieth, Nine­Teen Hundred and Forty-Two.
Commonwealth Act No. 626
June 07, 1941
An Act to Penalize Any VIolation of Section It, Article VI, or Subsection (2), Section 11, Article VIi, of the Constitution of the Philippines, as Amended.
Commonwealth Act No. 625
June 07, 1941
An Act Providing the Manner in Which the Option to Elect Philippine Citizenship Shall Be Declared By a Person Whose Mother Is a Filipino Citizen.
Commonwealth Act No. 624
June 07, 1941
An Act Appropriating the Sum of Ten Million Pesos for Civilian Defense.
Commonwealth Act No. 623
June 07, 1941
An Act to Authorize the Payment of Retirement Gratuities to Officers and Employees of Chartered Cities. Amending thereby Act Numbered Four thousand One Hundred and Eighty-three.
Commonwealth Act No. 622
June 07, 1941
An Act to Include the City of Baguio Among the Cities Relieved From the Payment of Sheriff Fees.
Commonwealth Act No. 621
June 06, 1941
An Act to Amend Section Fourteen of Act Numbered thirty-Eight Hundred and Ninety-Six, Entitled "An Act to Authorize the Organization of Rural Banks in the Philippine Islands and for Other Purposes."
Commonwealth Act No. 620
June 06, 1941
An Act to Amend Section One of Commonwealth Act Numbered Six Hundred.
Commonwealth Act No. 619
June 05, 1941
An Act to Provide for a New Time Limit for the Payment of the Taxes Corresponding to the Years Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Eight and Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Nine.
Commonwealth Act No. 618
June 05, 1941
An Act to Provide for the Issue of Bonds of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines for Replacement of the Amount to Be Transferred From the Government Center Fund Reserve to the Unencumbered Surplus of the General Fund, for the Construction of Public Improvements, and for Such Other Purposes as May Be Authorized By Law.
Commonwealth Act No. 617
June 04, 1941
An Act Providing Uniform Units of Volume or Weight in Tradings in Rice and Palay.
Commonwealth Act No. 616
June 04, 1941
An Act to Punish Espionage and Other Offenses Against the National Security.
Commonwealth Act No. 615
May 05, 1941
An Act to Amend Sections One Hundred Twenty-One and One Hundred Twenty-Two of the Public Land Act.
Commonwealth Act No. 614
February 23, 1941
An Act Amending Further Section Eighteen of the Administrative Code, as Amended By Act Numbered Forty-Two Hundred and Fifty-Eight and By Commonwealth Act Numbered Six Hundred and Two.
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.
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
Commonwealth Act No. 412
September 15, 1938
An Act to Reduce the Cadastral Cost Due From Landowners in Cadastral Surveys Undertaken By Private Corporations and to Appropriate Funds for the Purpose
Commonwealth Act No. 411
September 15, 1938
An Act Amending Section One thousand Four Hundred and Eighty-Seven of Act Numbered Two thousand Seven Hundred and Eleven, Known as the Administrative Code, as Amended By Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred and thirty-Five, Restoring the Specific Tax on Fermented Liquors to Its Former Rate.
Commonwealth Act No. 410
September 15, 1938
An Act to Amend the Revised Administrative Code, By Inserting Between Sections Twenty-Five Hundred Forty-Five and Twenty-Five Hundred Forty-Six, a New Section, to Be Known as Section Twenty-Five Hundred Forty-Five-A, Regarding Salaries of Officials of the City of Baguio.
Commonwealth Act No. 409
September 14, 1938
An Act to Designate the Provincial Fiscals of Provinces Whose Capitals Have Been Converted Into Cities, City Attorneys Ex Officio thereof, With Additional Compensation, and to Provide for the Appointment of Assistant City Attorneys thereat.
Commonwealth Act No. 408
September 14, 1938
An Act for Making Further and More Effectual Provision for the National Defense By Establishing a System of Military Justice for Persons Subject to Military Law.
Commonwealth Act No. 407
September 14, 1938
An Act to Amend Section One of Act Numbered thirty-Four Hundred and thirty-Six, Entitled "An Act Granting to the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company a Franchise to Install, Operate, and Maintain a Telephone System throughout the Philippine Islands."
Commonwealth Act No. 406
September 13, 1938
An Act Amending Section Twelve Hundred and Ninety of the Administrative Code So as to Give Collectors of Customs Discretionary Power to Impose Surcharges.
Commonwealth Act No. 405
September 13, 1938
An Act to Amend Commonwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred Forty, as Amended By Commonwealth Act Numbered three Hundred Twenty-Nine.
Commonwealth Act No. 404
September 13, 1938
An Act to Amend Certain Sections of Commonwealth Act Numbered three Hundred and Twenty-Six, Entitled "An Act Creating the City of Bacolod."
Commonwealth Act No. 403
September 13, 1938
An Act to Create a Revolving Loan Fund of Ten Million Pesos for the Construction of Permanent Public Markets and Slaughterhouses and Waterworks in the Philippines.
Commonwealth Act No. 402
September 13, 1938
An Act to Provide for the Classification of Civilian Positions and standardization of Salaries in the Government.
Commonwealth Act No. 401
September 12, 1938
An Act to Appropriate Funds for the Establishment of Postgraduate Courses and Fellowships in Medicine in the College of Medicine of the University of the Philippines.
Commonwealth Act No. 400
September 12, 1938
An Act Providing for the Payment of Indemnities and Pensions in Cases of Accident During the Training of Trainees or Reservists of the Philippine Army.
Commonwealth Act No. 399
September 12, 1938
An Act to Prohibit Building and Loan Associations to Take or Receive Directly or Indirectly in Money or Other Property, Real or Personal, or Choses in Action, a Higher Rate Ot Interest or Greater Sum or Value, Including Commissions, Premiums, Fines or Penalties for the Loan or Renewal thereof or Forbearance of Money, Goods, or Credits, or Dues on Shares of Such Associations, than Twelve Per Centum Per Annum, By Amending Sections Two and three of Act Numbered Twenty-Six Hundred and Fifty-Five, as Amended, and Amending and Repealing Certain Sections of the Corporation Law.
Commonwealth Act No. 398
September 07, 1938
An Act Creating the Cancer Institute; Defining Its Powers, Functions and Duties; and Appropriating the Necessary Funds for Its Organization and Operation.
Commonwealth Act No. 397
September 06, 1938
An Act Amending Section Six and Para Graph (G) of Section Eleven of Commonwealth Act Numbered three Hundred and thirty-Eight Known as the Charter of the City of Tagaytay.
Commonwealth Act No. 396
September 05, 1938
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.
Commonwealth Act No. 395
September 05, 1938
An Act to Amend the Last Item of the Subheading "V—Summary" of the Appropriation for the National Library Made in Commonwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred and Forty-Five So as to Make the Phrase "Less—Force Savings, From Salaries and Wages" to Read "Less—Forced Savings."
Commonwealth Act No. 394
September 05, 1938
An Act Amending Article VIii, Chapter Fifty-Two of the Administrative Code, Regarding the Philippine ; Postal Savings Bank.
Commonwealth Act No. 393
September 05, 1938
An Act Authorizing the Erection of a Commonwealth Triumphal Arch in the City of Manila to Commemorate the Inauguration of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, Providing the Means of Raising Funds and Appropriating the Necessary Amount for the Purpose.
Commonwealth Act No. 392
September 05, 1938
An Act Authorizing the Use of a Portion of the Income From the Operation and Maintenance of the Arrastre Service At the Port of Manila for the Payment of the Necessary Operating Expenses of the Said Service and for the Purchase of Furniture and Equipment Needed By the Same, Requiring that the Unused Portion of the Said Income Shall Accrue to the General Fund in the Philippine Treasury.
Commonwealth Act No. 391
September 05, 1938
An Act to Further Amend Section Two of Commonwealth Act Numbered Seven Entitled "An Act to Create a National Loan and Investment Hoard, Defining Its Powers, and for Other Purposes," as Amended By Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred Nine.
Commonwealth Act No. 390
September 05, 1938
An Act to Amend Commonwealth Act Numbered three Hundred thirty Entitled "An Act Appropriating Ninety-Six Million three Hundred Fifty-One thousand and three Hundred Pesos for Public Works."
Commonwealth Act No. 389
September 05, 1938
An Act Authorizing the City of Davao to Issue Bonds for the Purpose of Providing Funds to Construct 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. 388
September 05, 1938
An Act Appropriating the Sum of Twenty, Two thousand Five Hundred Pesos to Carry Out the Purposes of Commonwealth Act Numbered three Hundred Twenty-Five During the Fiscal Year Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Nine.
Commonwealth Act No. 387
September 05, 1938
An Act Granting to the United Press Associations a Franchise to Construct, Maintain and Operate in the Philippines stations for the Reception and Transmission of Wireless Long Distance Messages, Pictures or Other Matter Pertaining to the Press.
Commonwealth Act No. 386
September 05, 1938
An Act Granting to the Philippine Press Wireless, Inc., a Franchise to Construct, Maintain and Operate in the Philippines stations for the Reception and Transmission of Wireless Long Distance Messages, Pictures or Other Matter Pertaining to the Press.
Commonwealth Act No. 385
September 05, 1938
An Act to Amend Sections Seventeen, Nineteen, Twenty-Two, Twenty-Five, thirty-One, Forty, Fifty-Two, Seventy-Six-A, Seventy-Eight, Eighty-Nine, Ninety-Five and Ninety-Seven of Commonwealth Act Numbered One, Known as the National Defense Act, as Amended, and Inserting Four New Sections in Said Act to Be Known as Sections Twenty-Five-A, Twenty-Five-B-Ninety—A and Ninety-One-A.
Commonwealth Act No. 384
September 05, 1938
An Act to Amend Several Sections 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 By Act Numbered Forty-Hundred and Seventy-Nine and By Commonwealth Act Numbered Sixty.
Commonwealth Act No. 383
September 05, 1938
An Act to Punish the Dumping Into Any River of Refuse, Waste Matter or Substances of Any Kind Whatsoever that May Bring About the Rise or Filling in of River Beds or Cause Artificial Alluvial Formations.
Commonwealth Act No. 382
September 05, 1938
An Act to Adopt the Original Authentic Form of the Philippine National Anthem and to Appropriate Funds for Its Printing and Free Distribution.
Commonwealth Act No. 381
August 23, 1938
An Act Providing for the Support of Primary and Intermediate Education and for Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 380
August 23, 1938
An Act Requiring the Manage for Person in Charge of Any Sweepstake, Lottery or Other Similar Scheme for the Distribution of Prizes, Authorized to Be Conducted By the National Government or By Any Subdivision, Agency or Instrumentality thereof, to Deduct the Income Tax Due From Winners of the Prizes and to Pay the Amount So Deducted to the Collector of Internal Revenue.
Commonwealth Act No. 379
August 23, 1938
An Act Requiring the Branding and Registration of Large Animals Imported Into the Philippines and Prescribing Penalties for the VIolation of the Same.
Commonwealth Act No. 378
August 23, 1938
An Act Authorizing the President of the Philippines to Enter Into Negotiations With Owners of Landed Estates in the Philippines for the Purpose of Leasing Such Estates and to Sublet the Same to Bona Fide Occupants or Qualified Persons, Appropriating Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 377
August 23, 1938
An Act to Amend Conmmonwealth Act Numbered Sixty-Seven Entitled "An Act Making Appropriations for Public Works", as Amended By Commonwealth Act Numbered three Hundred Twenty-Eight.
Commonwealth Act No. 376
August 23, 1938
An Act to Amend Item 11, Under the Subheading "IV-Special and General Purposes", Heading "B-Office of the President", of Commonwealth Act Numbered three Hundred, Known as the General Appropriation Act for Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Nine, So as to Make the Appropriation Authorized in Said Item Available for Expenditure Beginning on the Date of the Approval of Said General Appropriation Act.
Commonwealth Act No. 375
August 23, 1938
An Act to Amend Section One of Commonwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred and Forty-One, Entitled "An Act to Appropriate Five Million Pesos to Be Distributed By the Secretary of Finance Among the Provinces, Subprovinces, Chartered Cities, Municipalities, and Municipal Districts on the Basis of the Yearly Average of their Shares in the Proceeds of the Cedula Tax Collected During the Years Nineteen Hundred and thirty-three, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Four, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Five, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Six, and Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Seven, to Compensate the Said Branches of the Government for the Loss From their Revenues on Account of the Abolition of the Cedula Tax."
Commonwealth Act No. 374
August 23, 1938
An Act to Amend Paragraph (4), General Provisions, Section Seven of Commonwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred and Forty-Six, Entitled "An Act Prescribing the Form of the Budget and Regulating the Expenditure of Authorized Appropriations."
Commonwealth Act No. 373
August 23, 1938
An Act Changing the Official Fiscal Year From the Period January First to December thirty-First of the Calendar Year to the Period From July First of Each Calendar Year to June thirtieth of the Calendar Year Immediately Following.
Commonwealth Act No. 372
August 23, 1938
An Act to Amend Section three of Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred and Fifty Six Entitled "An Act Authorizing the Philippine Antituberculosis Society to Hold Horse Races, With Betting, for Charitable and Civic Purposes and to Promote Horse Breeding in these Islands."
Commonwealth Act No. 371
August 23, 1938
An Act Granting Compensation to the Widow or Legitimate Children Under Twenty-One Years of Age of the Late Lieutenant-Colonel James B. Ord of the United states Army.
Commonwealth Act No. 370
August 23, 1938
An Act to Consider the Late Pedro Ma. Sison of Pangasinan, Judge of First Instance, Retired, and to Provide for the Payment of a Gratuity to His Widow.
Commonwealth Act No. 369
August 23, 1938
An Act to Appropriate Four Million Eight Hundred thousand Pesos From the Excise Tax Received From the Government of the United states to Reimburse the Amount Appropriated Under Act Numbered thirty-Nine Hundred and thirty-Two From Funds Under Act Numbered Twenty-Nine Hundred and Forty for the Construction of Irrigation Systems.
Commonwealth Act No. 368
August 23, 1938
An Act to Provide for a Revolving Fun for Laborers' Tenement Houses.
Commonwealth Act No. 367
August 23, 1938
An Act Transferring the National Library From the National Assembly to the Department of Public Instruction, and for Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 366
August 23, 1938
An Act to Amend Paragraph (E) of Section Twenty-Five Hundred Sixty of the Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 365
August 23, 1938
An Act to Amend Sections One and Twelve of Act Numbered thirty-Eight Hundred and Forty-Six Requiring a License for the Establishment And/Or Operation of Radio Receiving stations Used for Commercial Purpose.
Commonwealth Act No. 364
August 23, 1938
An Act to Repeal Section three of Act Numbered three thousand three Hundred Fifty-Two, as Amended' By Section Two of Act Numbered Four thousand Two Hundred Sixty-One of the Philippine Legislature, Known as the City Low­Land Improvement Act.
Commonwealth Act No. 363
August 23, 1938
An Act Authorizing the White Cross, Inc. to Hold Horse Races, With Betting, for Charitable and Civic Purposes and to Promote Horse Breeding in the Philippines.
Commonwealth Act No. 362
August 22, 1938
An Act to Amend Section Nineteen Hundred and Seventeen of the Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 361
August 22, 1938
An Act to Amend Sections Twenty-Four Hundred and Sixty-Six and Twenty-Four Hundred and Sixty-Eight of the Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 360
August 22, 1938
An Act to Amend Further Section One of Act Numbered thirty-Five Hundred and Ninety-Seven, as Amended.
Commonwealth Act No. 359
August 22, 1938
An Act to Amend Sections One, Two, three, Four and Six of Commonwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred and Eighty-Eight, Entitled "An Act to Provide Pension for Veterans of the Philippine Revolutions or Wars."
Commonwealth Act No. 358
August 22, 1938
An Act to Authorize in Certain Cases the Taking Over and Operation By the Government of Public Utilities or Businesses Coupled With a Public Interest; to Appropriate Funds for Such Purpose; and to Prescribe Penalties for Interfering With the Exercise By the Government of Its Authority Under the Act.
Commonwealth Act No. 357
August 22, 1938
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Commonwealth Act No. 356
August 22, 1938
An Act Specifying How National Aid Could Be Obtained By Any Province for the Construction, Equipment, Maintenance and Operation of Provincial Hospitals.
Commonwealth Act No. 355
August 22, 1938
An Act to Amend Sections Six, Nineteen, and Twenty-Four of Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred and three, Entitled, "An Act to Afford Protection of Labor By Creating' a Court of Industrial Relations Empowered to Fix Min­Imum Wages for Laborers and Maximum Rentals to Be Paid By Tenants, and to Enforce Compulsory Arbitration Between Employers or Landlords, and Employees or Tenants, Respectively; and By Prescribing Penalties for the VIolation of Its Orders."
Commonwealth Act No. 354
August 22, 1938
An Act Appropriating Eighty thousand Pesos to Compensate the Mountain Province for the Loss in Its Revenue on Account of the Abolition of the Road Tax.
Commonwealth Act No. 353
August 22, 1938
An Act Authorizing and Empowering the Board of Regents of the University of the Philippines to Fix the Compensation and Salaries of Members of the Faculties, Officers, and Employees of Said Institution.
Commonwealth Act No. 352
August 22, 1938
An Act Amending Section Eighteen of Act Numbered Two thousand Six Hundred and Twelve, Entitled, "An Act Creating the Philippine National Bank," as Amended By Acts Numbered Two thousand Nine Hundred and thirty-Eight and thirty-Nine Hundred and Seventy-Nine.
Commonwealth Act No. 351
August 22, 1938
An Act Authorizing the President of the Philippines, in Aid of the Establishment and Operation of a Petroleum and Natural Gas Industry, to Call for Bids and Award and Execute Contracts for the Exploration, Exploitation and De­Velopment of Petroleum and Natural Gas Deposits in Private and Public Lands in the Philippines, Subject in All Cases to the Ex­Press Approval of the National Assembly.
Commonwealth Act No. 350
August 22, 1938
An Act Providing for the Payment of Gratuity to Provincial Fiscals and Assistant Provincial Fiscals Who Shall Retire From the Service and to those Who Were Separated therefrom as a Result of the Operation of the Constitution of the Philippines, Appropriating the Necessary Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 349
August 22, 1938
An Act Creating a standardizing Meter Laboratory to Carry Out the Provisions of the Public Service Act on Meter Testing and Providing Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 348
August 19, 1938
An Act Amending the Administrative Code to Increase the Number of Judges and Judges-At-Large of First Instance, to Alter the Times and Places of Holding Courts in Certain Districts, and to Fix the Compensation of Judges and Judges-At-Large of First Instance, and Appropriating therefor the Necessary Funds.
Commonwealth Act No. 347
August 19, 1938
An Act Appropriating Two and One-Half Million Pesos for the Classification, Survey, and Subdivision of Public Agricultural Lands.
Commonwealth Act No. 346
August 17, 1938
An Act Providing for An Additional Appropriation of Two Million One Hundred thousand Pesos to Carry Out the Provisions of Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred and Seventy.
Commonwealth Act No. 345
August 17, 1938
An Act Repealing Section Six of Com­Monwealth Act Numbered three Hundred, Entitled "An Act Ap­Propriating Funds for the Operation of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines During the Fiscal Year Ending December thirty-First, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Nine."
Commonwealth Act No. 344
June 24, 1938
An Act to Amend Section Eleven of Com­Monwealth Act Numbered One Hundred and Twenty, Entitled "An Act Creating the 'National Power Corporation,' Prescribing Its Powers and Activities, Appropriating the Necessary Funds therefor, and Reserving the Unappropriated Public Waters for Its Use."
Commonwealth Act No. 343
June 23, 1938
An Act to Abolish the state Police Force, to Reorganize the Philippine Constabulary Into a National Police Force and Providing Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 342
June 23, 1938
An Act to Amend Sections One, Four, Eleven, Twelve, and Sixteen of Act Numbered thirty-One Hundred Five Entitled "An Act Regulating the Practice of Public Account­Ing; Creating a Board of Accountancy; Providing for Examination for the Granting of Certificates and the Registration of Certified Public Accountants; for the Suspension or Revocation of Certif­Icates, and for Other Purposes" as Amended, and for Other Pur­Poses.
Commonwealth Act No. 341
June 22, 1938
An Act to Amend Sections Four, Five, Six and Seven of Act Numbered thirty-Nine Hundred and Ninety-Seven as Amended By Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred and Seven.
Commonwealth Act No. 340
June 21, 1938
An Act Creating An Animal Utilization Service in the Bureau of Animal Industry and Appropriating Funds for Its Establishment, Equipment, Maintenance, and Operation.
Commonwealth Act No. 339
June 21, 1938
An Act Appropriating the Amount of One thousand Pesos for the Construction of the Isiri Elementary School, Calbiga, Samar.
Commonwealth Act No. 338
June 21, 1938
An Act to Incorporate the City of Tagaytay, and for Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 337
June 21, 1938
An Act Authorizing the Chartered City of Cebu to Issue Bonds for the Purpose of Providing Funds to Construct Necessary Sewer Facilities in Said City, and Authorizing Also a National Government Bond Issue Secured By Said City Bonds.
Commonwealth Act No. 336
June 19, 1938
An Act Changing the Name of the "Mojon Elementary School," in the Municipality of Malolos, Province of Bulacan, to that of "Barasoain Memorial Elementary School."
Commonwealth Act No. 335
June 19, 1938
An Act to Rename a street At Present Called "Mangahan" in the City of Manila, as "Pedro Guevara."
Commonwealth Act No. 334
June 19, 1938
An Act to Amend Section Eleven of Act Numbered Twenty-Five Hundred and Eight, as Amended By Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred thirty-three.
Commonwealth Act No. 333
June 18, 1938
An Act to Amend Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred and Eighty-Four, Entitled "An Act to Establish a National Language Institute and Define Its Powers and Duties."
Commonwealth Act No. 332
June 18, 1938
An Act to Establish the National Abaca and Other Fiber Corporation.
Commonwealth Act No. 331
June 18, 1938
An Act Providing Gratuity to Justices of the Peace Who Were Separated From the Service as a Result of the Operation of the Constitution, and the Reorganization of the Justice of the Peace Courts in Accordance With Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred and One, and Justices of the Peace Who At Sixty-Five Years or Over Ceased to Hold Office on or After November Sixteen, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-One, and to those Who Shall Retire From the Service, and Appropriating Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 330
June 18, 1938
An Act Appropriating Ninety Six Million, three Hundred Pesos for Public Works.
Commonwealth Act No. 329
June 18, 1938
An Act to Amend Items of Appropriation Under Section One, Paragraph a of Commonwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred Forty.
Commonwealth Act No. 328
June 18, 1938
An Act to Amend Commonwealth Act Numbered Sixty-Seven Entitled "An Act Making Appropriations for Public Works."
Commonwealth Act No. 327
June 18, 1938
An Act Fixing the Time Within Which the Auditor General Shall Render His S and Prescribing the Manner of Appeal therefrom.
Commonwealth Act No. 326
June 18, 1938
An Act Creating the City of Bacolod.
Commonwealth Act No. 325
June 18, 1938
An Act Transferring the Audit of the Books and Accounts of Public Services From the Public Service Commission to the General Auditing Office and Providing Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 324
June 18, 1938
An Act to Amend Certain Provisions of Act Numbered thirty-Nine Hundred and Sixty-One, Entitled An Act to Provide Free Emergency Medical Treatment for Employees and Laborers of Commercial, Industrial, and Agricultural Establishments, in Certain Cases, Provide Penalties for the VIolation Hereof, and for Other Purposes."
Commonwealth Act No. 323
June 16, 1938
An Act to Amend Section Eight of Act Numbered Forty-One Hundred and Sixty-Six as Amended.
Commonwealth Act No. 322
June 09, 1938
An Act Amending Sections Two thousand and Twenty-Nine and Two thousand and thirty-One of the Revised Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 321
June 09, 1938
An Act to Authorize the President of the Philippines to Declare Any Area or Zone in the Philippines as a National Defense Zone, to Prohibit Entry therein Except to Certain Classes of Persons, and to Prescribe Penalties for the VIolation thereof.
Commonwealth Act No. 320
June 09, 1938
An Act Prescribing Certain Additional Functions of the General Auditing Office.
Commonwealth Act No. 319
June 09, 1938
An Act Providing that All Retirement Gratuities of Officers and Employees Granted Retirement Under the Provisions of Act Numbered Twenty-Five Hundred and Eighty-Nine, as Amended, Shall Be Paid From the Respective Funds From Which the Salaries of the Said Retired Officers and Employees Were Being Paid At the Time of Retirement.
Commonwealth Act No. 318
June 09, 1938
An Act to Amend Section Forty-Five of Act Numbered Two thousand Six Hundred and Twelve, Entitled "An Act Creating the Philippine National Hank," as Amended By Act Numbered Two thousand Nine Hundred and thirty-Eight.
Commonwealth Act No. 317
June 09, 1938
An Act to Amend Section One of Com­Monwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred and Eleven
Commonwealth Act No. 316
June 09, 1938
An Act to Amend Section Two of Com­Monwealth Act Numbered thirty-Two, Entitled "An Act Pro­VIding for the Subdivision and Sale of All the Portions of the Friar Lands Estates Remaining Undisposed Of."
Commonwealth Act No. 315
June 09, 1938
An Act Providing for An Additional Ap­Propriation of Six Hundred thousand Pesos for the Revolving Fund of the Bureau of Printing to Be Used Exclusively in the Printing and Binding of Census Forms and Census Volumes, and Providing for their Distribution and Sale.
Commonwealth Act No. 314
June 09, 1938
An Act to Amend Section Two of Act Numbered thirty-One Hundred and Sixteen, as Amended, Entitled "An Act to Authorize the Governor-General to Purchase on Be­Half of the Government of the Philippine Islands, Seventy thou­Sand Shares of the Capital stock of the .Manila Railroad Company of the Philippine Islands, and to Provide Funds for Paying the Price of Said Shares.
Commonwealth Act No. 313
June 09, 1938
An Act Authorizing the Establishment of Regional National Vocational Trade Schools of the Philippine School of Arts and Trades Type and Regional National Vocational Agricultural High Schools of the Central Luzon Agricultural High School Type and the Proper Support and Expansion of Such Schools After they Have Been Established.
Commonwealth Act No. 312
June 09, 1938
An Act to Amend Paragraph (D) of Section Twenty-Two of Commonwealth Act Numbered One, in Or­Der to Fix the Rank of the Chief of staff and His Term of Office.
Commonwealth Act No. 311
June 09, 1938
An Act to Amend Sections Two, three, Four, and Five of Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred Eighty-Two Which Creates the "National Development Company
Commonwealth Act No. 310
June 09, 1938
An Act Punishing the Transfer of Private Agricultural Land to Disqualified Persons in VIolation of the Con­stitution of the Philippines.
Commonwealth Act No. 309
June 09, 1938
An Act to Amend Sections Sixty-Two and Sixty-Eight of Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred and thirty-Seven, Known as the "Mining Act.
Commonwealth Act No. 308
June 09, 1938
An Act to Amend Paragraph Numbered 4, Under D-IV-Special Appropriations, Section Two, Pastes Fifty-Nine and Sixty, English Version, of Commonwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred Forty-Five Pertaining to the Appropriation of the Department of the Interior So as to Reitemize Item D-IV-4-0) thereof and for Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 307
June 09, 1938
An Act Authorizing the President of the Philippines on Behalf of the Commonwealth of the Philip­Pines to Supplement and Amend the Agreement Heretofore Exe­Cuted Between the Government of the Philippine Islands and the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Company of Manila, Pursuant to Act Numbered three thousand and Fifty-Six.
Commonwealth Act No. 306
June 09, 1938
An Act to Allow the Acceptance of Deposits of Mortgage and Savings Banks as Security Tor Loans, Amending to that Effect Section One Hundred and Five of the Corporation Law.
Commonwealth Act No. 305
June 09, 1938
An Act to Amend Sections Two and three of Act Numbered thirty-Five Hundred and Eighty-Two, Entitled "An Act to Create a Board of Censorship for Moving Pictures and Defining Its Functions," as Amended By Commonwealth Act Num­Bered One Hundred and Sixty-Seven.
Commonwealth Act No. 304
June 09, 1938
An Act to Provide for the Reforestation and Afforestation of Watersheds, 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. 303
June 09, 1938
An Act Providing for the Time of Pay­Ment of Salaries and Wages of Laborers and Employees; Prohibit­Ing the Forcing, Compelling, or Obliging of Any Employee or Laborer to Purchase Merchandise, Commodities, or Any Other Personal Property Under Certain Conditions, and the Payment of the Salary or Wages of An Employee or Laborer By Means of Tokens or Objects Other than the Legal Tender Currency of the Philippines; Prescribing Penalties for VIolations Hereof.
Commonwealth Act No. 302
June 09, 1938
An Act Granting the "Metropolitan Radio Corporation" a Franchise to Construct, Maintain, and Op­Erate stations for the Transmission and Reception of Wireless Messages.
Commonwealth Act No. 301
June 09, 1938
An Act to Amend Sections Two, three, Four, Six, Eight and Nine of Act Numbered Forty-One Hundred and thirty By Placing the Philippine Charity Sweepstake Office on An Equal Footing With Private Corporations.
Commonwealth Act No. 300
June 09, 1938
An Act Appropriating Funds for the Operation of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines During the Fiscal Year Ending December thirty-First, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Nine.
Commonwealth Act No. 299
June 09, 1938
An Act to Amend Section Two Hundred and Twenty of the Administrative Code, Increasing the Salaries of Justices of the Peace, and Providing Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 298
June 09, 1938
An Act to Amend Subsection (D) of Section Twenty-Six Hundred and Fourteen of the Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 297
June 09, 1938
An Act to Amend Section Seventy of Act Numbered Four thousand three, Known as the "Fisheries Act," as Amended By Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred Fifteen.
Commonwealth Act No. 296
June 09, 1938
An Act to Provide for the Transfer of the Branch of the College of Liberal Arts of the University of the Philippines in the Municipality of VIgan, Ilocos Sur, Created By Act Numbered Twenty-Nine Hundred Fifty-Six, to the City of Baguio, Mountain Province, and to Provide Funds to Cover the Expenses Incident to Such Transfer.
Commonwealth Act No. 295
June 09, 1938
An Act Authorizing the City of Davao Topay the Salaries of Mayor Santiago Artiaga and City Treasurer Jose Elayda.
Commonwealth Act No. 294
June 09, 1938
An Act to Regulate the Practice of Mechanical Engineering in the Philippines, to Provide for Licensing, the Operating Personnel in Mechanical Plants and for Other Purposes
Commonwealth Act No. 293
June 09, 1938
An Act to Amend Section Eleven Hundred Ninety-Eight of the Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 292
June 09, 1938
An Act Amending Sections Forty-Five and Forty-Seven of Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred Forty-One, Entitled "An Act to Amend and Compile the Laws Relative Tolands of Public Domain."
Commonwealth Act No. 291
June 09, 1938
An Act to Grant An Extension of thirty Days to the Ocmis Electric Service Company to Comply With the Requirements of Acts Numbered thirty-Six Hundred and Forty-Five and thirty-Nine Hundred and Fifty-One in Connection With a Franchise for Electric Light, Heat and Power Service, in Oroquieta, Province of Occidental Misamis.
Commonwealth Act No. 290
June 09, 1938
An Act to Amend Section Five of the Amending Securities Act, So as to Include Certificates or Titles Issued to Its Members By Charitable or Mutual Aid and Benefit Societies or Associations in the Class of Exempt Securities Under the Provisions of the Said Act.
Commonwealth Act No. 289
June 09, 1938
An Act Providing a Fixed Unit of Weight in the Trading At Wholesale and Retail of Unfermented Unstemmed Leaf Tobacco and Prescribing Penalties for VIolations thereof.
Commonwealth Act No. 288
June 03, 1938
An Act to Provide Pension for Veterans of the Philippine Revolutions or Wars.
Commonwealth Act No. 287
June 03, 1938
An Act to Transfer to the Securities and Exchange Commission the Powers, Duties and Functions of the Bureau of Commerce in Connection With the Registration of Corporations and Associations and to Authorize the Securities and Exchange Commission to Enforce the Provisions of All Laws Affecting Such Entities.
Commonwealth Act No. 286
June 03, 1938
An Act Authorizing the President of the Philippines to Extend the Present Territorial Limits of the City or Baguio.
Commonwealth Act No. 285
June 03, 1938
An Act Abolishing- the Manila Harbor Board, Making the Necessary Provisions for the Administrative Adjustments Resulting therefrom, and Appropriating Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 284
June 03, 1938
An Act Fixing the Minimum Indemnity in All Cases of Civil Liability for the Death of a Person At Two thousand Pesos.
Commonwealth Act No. 283
June 03, 1938
An Act to Amend Commonwealth Act Numbered Eighty-three Known as Securities Act, By Inserting Section Twenty-One-A, and Amending Section Twenty-Eight thereof.
Commonwealth Act No. 282
June 03, 1938
An Act to Secure the United states Against Loss or Damage to Any Military or Naval stores, Supplies, and Equipment Loaned to the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
Commonwealth Act No. 281
June 03, 1938
An Act to Further Amend Section Six Hundred and Eighty-Two of Act Numbered Twenty-Seven Hundred and Eleven, as Amended By Section Sixteen of Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred and Seventy-Seven, So as to Extend the Temporary Appointment of Teachers Until the End of the School Semester.
Commonwealth Act No. 280
June 03, 1938
An Act Penalizing the Construction or Maintenance of "Cottas."
Commonwealth Act No. 279
June 03, 1938
An Act to Provide that Preference in Dispatching Shall Be Given to Cases Involving Conflicts Between Capital and Labor.
Commonwealth Act No. 278
June 03, 1938
An Act to Amend Section Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Six of the Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 277
June 03, 1938
An Act to Consider the Late Mariano Buyson Lampa of Pampanga, Judge of First Instance, Retired Under Act Numbered Twenty-Five Hundred and Eighty-Nine, as Amended.
Commonwealth Act No. 276
June 03, 1938
An Act to Authorize the Filing in the Proper Court, Under Certain Conditions, of Certain Claims of Title to Parcels of Land that Have Been Declared Public Land, By VIrtue of Judicial S Rendered Within the Fifteen Years Next Preceding the Approval of this Act.
Commonwealth Act No. 275
June 03, 1938
An Act to Amend Section Twenty-Two of Act Numbered Twenty-One Hundred and Fifty-Two.
Commonwealth Act No. 274
June 03, 1938
An Act Penalizing the Sale or Disposition of Imported Eggs the Shells of Which Are Not Plainly Marked Imported as Herein Provided.
Commonwealth Act No. 273
June 03, 1938
An Act to Impose a More Severe Penalty for the Crime of theft of Large Cattle.
Commonwealth Act No. 272
June 02, 1938
An Act to Amend Sections Ninety One and Ninety-Two of Commonwealth Act Numbered One Known as the National Defense Act.
Commonwealth Act No. 271
June 02, 1938
An Act to Amend Act Numbered Four thousand One Hundred and thirteen, Entitled "An Act to Prescribe Certain Provisions Concerning Tenancy Contracts on Land Planted to Sugar Cane," So as to Include Farm Laborers, Commonly Called "Pakiadores."
Commonwealth Act No. 270
June 02, 1938
An Act to Amend Section Twenty-One of the Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 269
June 02, 1938
An Act to Amend Section Nineteen Hundred and Sixty-Six of the Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 268
June 02, 1938
An Act to Amend Further Section One of Act Numbered thirty-Five Hundred and Ninety-Seven as Amended.
Commonwealth Act No. 267
June 02, 1938
An Act to Amend Section Sixty-One of Commonwealth Act Numbered One, Known as the National Defense Act.
Commonwealth Act No. 266
May 20, 1938
An Act Appropriating the Sum of One Million three Hundred thousand Pesos for the Relief of Communities and Indigent Persons Who Are Sufferers From Typhoons, Floods, or Other Public Calamities, and of the Unemployed and Other Persons Deserving of Material Aid.
Commonwealth Act No. 265
May 20, 1938
An Act to Grant Complete Postal and Telegraph Franking Privileges to the Commission of the Census.
Commonwealth Act No. 264
April 22, 1938
An Act to Amend Articles One Hundred and Forty-three, One Hundred and Forty-Four, and One Hundred and Forty-Five of the Revised Penal Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 263
April 21, 1938
An Act Authorizing Felipe Cuaderno, Assistant Director of Posts, to Accept the Decoration Conferred Upon Him By His Majesty, the King of Egypt.
Commonwealth Act No. 262
April 21, 1938
An Act Authorizing Major-General Basilio J. Valdes, and Captain Ciriaco Carillo, to Accept Such Medals, Orders, or Decorations as Have Been Tendered them By Foreign Governments in Appreciation of Services Rendered.
Commonwealth Act No. 261
April 21, 1938
An Act to Amend Section Five Hundred Seven of the Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 260
April 18, 1938
An Act to Amend Section One of Commonwealth Act Numbered Twenty and to Appropriate An Additional Amount of Two Million Pesos, or So Much thereof as May Be Necessary for the Purpose of Fully Carrying Out the Provisions of Said Act.
Commonwealth Act No. 259
April 07, 1938
An Act to Amend Certain Provisions of the Administrative Code, as Amended By Commonwealth Act Numbered three, Relating to the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals and to Appropriate Funds to Carry Out the Purposes thereof.
Commonwealth Act No. 258
March 31, 1938
An Act to Grant the Ilagan Electric and Ice Plant, Incorporated, An Extension of thirty Days to Comply With Certain Conditions of the Franchise Awarded Under Act Numbered thirty-Four Hundred and Ninety-Four of the Philippine Legislature.
Commonwealth Act No. 257
March 25, 1938
An Act Authorizing the President of the Philippines to Release and Order the Expenditure of a Sum Not Exceeding Forty Per Centum of the Total Amount Recommended for Appropriation in the Public Works Bill Attached to the Message of the President to the National Assembly Dated February First, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Eight, to Enable the Government to Commence At Once the Execution of the Projects Listed in the Said Bill.
Commonwealth Act No. 256
April 29, 1938
An Act Confirming the Commitment of the Commonwealth of the Philippines Under the International Agreement Regarding the Regulation of Production and Marketing of Sugar and the Protocol Annexed thereto, Both Signed in London on May Sixth, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Seven.
Commonwealth Act No. 255
March 09, 1938
An Act Providing for the Abolition of the Road Tax.
Commonwealth Act No. 254
March 04, 1938
An Act to Amend Sections One and Two of Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred three of Industrial.
Commonwealth Act No. 253
February 26, 1938
An Act Amending Further Paragraph Sixty-Four of Group 2, Class IV, of Section Eight of the Philippine Tariff Act of Nineteen Hundred and Nine, as Amended, So as to Extend the Free Entry of Woods, Barks, Roots and Similar Natural Products, for Dyeing or Tanning.
Commonwealth Act No. 252
December 21, 1937
An Act Authorizing His Excellency, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, to Accept the Decoration Known as the "Order of the Brilliant Jade", Conferred Upon Him By the National Government of the Republic of China.
Commonwealth Act No. 251
December 17, 1937
An Act to Amend Section Fourteen Hundred and Seventy-three of the Administrative Code, as Amended By Commonwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred and Fifteen.
Commonwealth Act No. 250
December 17, 1937
An Act Amending Sections Twenty-Seven and Twenty-Eight, and the First Paragraph of Section Twenty-Nine of the Charter of the City of Zamboanga, So as to Authorize the Payment in Two Installments of the Taxed on Real Estate in the Said City, Placing the Additional Tax as Penalty At Two Per Centum for Each Full Month of Delinquency Due on the Amount of the Original Tax Due, and to Permit Remission of Such Taxes.
Commonwealth Act No. 249
December 17, 1937
An Act Amending the Administrative Code So as to Transfer to the Secretary of the Interior the Authority to Approve Changes in the Names Provided By Municipal Councils for streets, Avenues, and Other Public Places.
Commonwealth Act No. 248
December 17, 1937
An Act Extending to Officers and Employees Retired Under the Provisions of Art Numbered Twenty-Fire Hundred and Eighty-Nine the Privileges Granted By Commonwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred and Six to Officers and Employees Retired Under Act Numbered Four thousand and Fifty-One.
Commonwealth Act No. 247
December 17, 1937
An Act to Make the Provisions of Section Two thousand and Ninety-Seven of the Administrative Code Applicable to the Provincial Boards of Abra, Camarines Norte, Marinduque, Masbate and Romblon, and Repealing the Second Paragraph of the Said Section.
Commonwealth Act No. 246
December 17, 1937
An Act Prescribing the Form of the Budget and Regulating the Expenditure of Authorized Ap­Propriations.
Commonwealth Act No. 245
December 17, 1937
An Act Appropriating Funds for the Operation of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines During the Fiscal Year Ending Dec­Ember thirty-First, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Eight.
Commonwealth Act No. 244
December 10, 1937
An Act Setting the Fourth Monday of January of Each Year as the Day for the Opening of the Regular Session of the National Assembly.
Commonwealth Act No. 243
December 10, 1937
An Act to Amend Sections Fourteen Hundred and Fifty-Seven and Fourteen Hundred and Fifty-Nine of the Administrative Code, as Amended By the Commonwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred and Fifteen.
Commonwealth Act No. 242
December 09, 1937
An Act Providing for An Annual Grant of One Million Pesos From the National Government to the City of Manila.
Commonwealth Act No. 241
December 09, 1937
An Act to Appropriate Five Million Pesos to Be Distributed By the Secretary of Finance Among the Provinces, Subprovinces, Chartered Cities, Municipalities and Municipal Districts on the Basis of the Yearly Average of their Shares in the Proceeds of the Cedula Tax Collected During the Years Nineteen Hundred and thirty-three, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Four, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Five, Nineteen Hunched and thirty-Six, and Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Seven, to Compensate the Said Branches of the Government for the Loss From their Revenues on Account of the Abolition of the Cedula Tax.
Commonwealth Act No. 240
December 08, 1937
An Act Appropriating the Sum of Five Million Fifty thousand Pesos for Elementary School Buildings.
Commonwealth Act No. 239
November 29, 1937
An Act to Appropriate the Sum of Five Hundred thousand Pesos for the Relief of Communities and Indigent Sufferers From Typhoons, Floods, or Other Public Calamities.
Commonwealth Act No. 238
November 15, 1937
An Act Providing for the Abolition of the Cedula Tax.
Commonwealth Act No. 237
September 23, 1937
An Act to Provide for the Restoration and Payment of All Annuities Due to Persons Retired Under and Pursuant to the Terms and Provisions of Acts Numbered thirty Hundred and Fifty, thirty-One Hundred and Seventy-three, and Article IIi of Chapter thirty-Five of the Administrative Code, Each as Amended and in Effect Prior to November First, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Six.
Commonwealth Act No. 236
September 16, 1937
An Act Authorizing the President of the Philippines to Designate Any Department, Bureau, Office or Instrumentality of the National Government, or to Create a New Office or Agency for the Purpose of Making Allotments of Any Quota Established for the Philippines Pursuant to the Provisions of the United states Sugar Act of Nineteen Hundred thirty-Seven, on the Basis Specified in Section Six (D) of Public Law Numbered One Hundred and Twenty-Seven, Approved March Twenty-Four, Nineteen Hundred thirty-Four, and of Enforcing Act Numbered Forty-One Hundred Sixty-Six, as Amended By Commonwealth Act Numbered Seventy-Seven, and Providing the Necessary Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 235
September 16, 1937
An Act to Amend Article One Hundred and Ninety-Five of the Revised Penal Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 234
September 15, 1937
An Act Appropriating the Sum of One Million Two Hundred thousand Pesos as Aid for the Establishment and Maintenance of New Elementary Classes.
Commonwealth Act No. 233
September 15, 1937
An Act to Provide for the Holding of Elections of Provincial, City, and Municipal Officers and Amend for Said Purpose Certain Sections of the Administrative Code on Elections and Kindred Matters.
Commonwealth Act No. 232
March 09, 1937
An Act Amending Further Section Fourteen of the Philippine Tariff Act of Nineteen Hundred and Nine, as Amended, So as to Exempt Natural Rock Asphalt From the Payment of Wharfage Charges.
Commonwealth Act No. 231
March 09, 1937
An Act to Amend Paragraph Two Hundred and Sixty-Nine of Section Eight of the Act Entitled "An Act to Raise Revenue for the Philippine Islands, and for Other Purposes," Approved By the Congress of the United states on August Fifth, Nineteen Hundred and Nine, as Amended.
Commonwealth Act No. 230
November 29, 1936
An Act Authorizing the Transfer of Any Amount From One Municipal Fund to Another, Whenever the Public Interests So Require.
Commonwealth Act No. 218
November 29, 1936
An Act to Grant An Extension of thirty Days to the Tayabas Light and Power Company, Incorporated, to Comply With the Requirements of Act Numbered thirty-Six Hundred and Forty-Nine Granting the Said Company a Franchise for Electric Light, Heat and Power, in Tayabas, Province of Tayabas.
Commonwealth Act No. 219
November 29, 1936
An Act to Extend to All Associations of Whatever Class or Form the Restrictions, Limitations, and Prohibitions of Existing Laws Upon Corporations.
Commonwealth Act No. 220
November 29, 1936
An Act to Amend Chapter thirteen (Leave Law) of Act Numbered Twenty-Seven Hundred And: Eleven, as Amended, Abolishing the Additional Leave of the Justices of the Supreme Court, the Extended Leave of the Judges of the Court of Appeals and Courts of First Instance and Teachers, and the Accrued Leave of Other Officers and Employees; Increasing the Vacation Leave and Creating the Sick Leave.
Commonwealth Act No. 221
November 29, 1936
An Act to Amend Sections three and Twenty-One of Act Numbered Four thousand Two Hundred and Seventy-One, Entitled "An Act Granting a Franchise to Philippine Aerial Taxi Company, Incorporated, to Operate An Air Transport Service in the Philippines, and for Other Purposes."
Commonwealth Act No. 222
November 29, 1936
An Act to Amend Sections three and Twenty-One of Act Numbered Four thousand Two Hundred and Seventy-Two, Entitled "An Act Granting a Franchise to Iloilo-Negros Air Express Company, Incorporated, to Operate An Air Transport Service in the Philippines, and for Other Purposes."
Commonwealth Act No. 223
November 29, 1936
An Act Providing for the Award of Air Mail Contracts and Appropriating the Necessary Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 224
November 29, 1936
An Act to Amend Section Twenty-Five Hundred and Sixty-Two and to Insert Four New Sections Between Sections Twenty-Five Hundred and Sixty-Two and Twenty-Five Hundred and Sixty-three of Act Numbered Twenty-Seven Hundred and Eleven, Known as the Revised Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 225
November 30, 1936
An Act Remitting the Bond of Four thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-Seven Pesos and Ninety-Nine Centavos Furnished By the Luzon Surety Company, Incorporated, in Behalf of Euffenio Uy Tuising in the Cases of People Versus Eugenio Uy Tuising.
Commonwealth Act No. 227
November 30, 1936
An Act to Authorize the Holding of Charity Lotteries, Create a Public Corporation to Attend to It, and Define Its Powers.
Commonwealth Act No. 226
November 30, 1936
An Act to Amend Section Twenty-One Hundred and Ninety-Nine of Act Numbered Twenty-Seven Hundred and Eleven, as Amended By Act Numbered thirty-One Hundred and Fifteen.
Commonwealth Act No. 228
November 30, 1936
An Act to Authorize the Director of the National Library to Negotiate and Consummate the Purchase of Professor Craig'S Copyright in the Book "Rizal'S Own story of His Life" Together With His Present Collection of Philippine Materials and His Unpublished Writings and studies About the Philippines, and to Appropriate Funds for the Purpose.
Commonwealth Act No. 229
November 30, 1936
An Act Authorizing the Transfer of Any Amount From One Provincial Fund to Another, Whenever the Public Interests So Require.
Commonwealth Act No. 139
November 07, 1936
An Act to Amend Section Four of Act Numbered Forty-One Hundred and Twenty-One, So as to Place Administration of Existing Philippine Immigration Laws Under the Jurisdiction and Supervision of the Department of Labor.
Commonwealth Act No. 140
November 07, 1936
An Act to Amend Act Numbered Forty-Two Hun­Dred and Forty Entitled "An Act to Revise, Amend, and Consolidate All Laws Governing Horse Races, Limit the Same to Certain Special Dates, Prohibit Any Person or Body of Persons Other than that Conducting a Horse Race From Maintaining or Using a Totalizer or System of Betting or Gambling on Such Race, Provide Penalties for the VIolation Hereof, and for Other Purposes."
Commonwealth Act No. 141
November 07, 1936
An Act to Amend and Compile the Laws Relative to Lands of the Public Domain
Commonwealth Act No. 142
November 07, 1936
An Act to Regulate the Use of Aliases.
Commonwealth Act No. 143
November 07, 1936
An Act to Amend Act Numbered Twenty-Seven Hundred and Eleven, Commonly Known as the Administrative Code of Nineteen Hundred and Seventeen, By Inserting Section Twenty-Five Hundred and Sixty-One (A) Between Sections Twenty-Five Hundred and Sixty-One and Twenty-Five Hundred and Sixty-Two thereof.
Commonwealth Act No. 146
November 07, 1936
An Act to Reorganize the Public Service Commission, Prescribe Its Powers and Duties, Define and Regulate Public Services, Provide and Fix the Rates and Quota of Expenses to Be Paid By the Same, and for Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 145
November 07, 1936
An Act to Amend Certain Sections of Articles three, Four, Fire, and Six of Chapter Nine of the Revised Administrative Code, as Amended, So as to Reorganize the Courts of First Instance.
Commonwealth Act No. 144
November 07, 1936
An Act to Amend Sections Sixteen Hundred and Seventy-Four, Sixteen Hundred and Seventy-Nine, Sixteen Hundred and Eighty, Sixteen Hundred and Eighty-Six, and Twenty-Four Hundred and Sixty-Five, of the Administrative Code, as Amended.
Commonwealth Act No. 147
November 07, 1936
An Act to stabilize the Prices of Buntal Fibers, By Directing and Authorizing the National Development Company to Fix the Minimum Unit Price thereof, and to Appropriate the Sum of Five Hundred thousand Pesos for the Purchase By the National Development Company of the Fiber in Excess of Domestic Demands.
Commonwealth Act No. 148
November 08, 1936
An Act to Amend Section Four of Act Numbered Twelve Hundred and Eighty-Five So as to Withdraw From Agents of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of the Philippines the Power and Authority to Make Arrests for VIolations of the Law Against Cruelty to Animals and for the Protection of Animals and to Abolish the Privelege Granted the Said Society to Share in the Amount of the Fines Collected for Such VIolations.
Commonwealth Act No. 149
November 08, 1936
And Act to Appropriate the Sum of One Million One Hundred thousand Pesos, of Which Sum the Amount of Six Hundred thousand Pesos Is Appropriated for the Purchase of the Ayuntamiento Building, and Five Hundred thousand Pesos as Contribution From the National Government to the City of Manila for the Construction of An Adequate City Hall, and to Abolish the Contribution to the Government of the Said City as Provided in Section Two thousand Four Hundred and Forty-Two of the Revised Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 150
November 08, 1936
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. 151
November 08, 1936
An Act Appropriating the Sum of Forty Seven thousand Pesos for the Construction and Repair of Certain Dams Inside the Friar Land Estates.
Commonwealth Act No. 152
November 09, 1936
An Act to Declare the Second Sunday of January of Every Year "Unknown Citizens' Day" in Honor of All Unknown Patriotic Filipino Citizens.
Commonwealth Act No. 153
November 09, 1936
An Act to Impose Punishment Upon Any Public Official Who Shall, Without the Consent of the National Assembly, Accept Any Present, Emolument, Office or Title From a Foreign state, Excepting Honors or Titles of a Religious, Academic or Scientific Nature.
Commonwealth Act No. 154
November 09, 1936
An Act to Amend Section Two of Act Amending Numbered Forty-Two Hundred and Forty, Entitled, "An Act to Revise, Amend, and Consolidate All Laws Governing Horse Races, Limit the Same to Certain Special Dates, Prohibit Any Person or Body of Persons Other than that Conducting a Horse Race From Maintaining or Using a Totalizer or System of Betting or Gambling on Such Race, Provide Penalties for the VIolation Hereof, and for Other Purposes."
Commonwealth Act No. 155
November 09, 1936
An Act to Amend Act Numbered Forty-One Hundred and Forty-Two, So as to Grant Chartered Cities, and Municipal Districts, Unrestrained Power to Fix Reasonable Slanghter Fees to Be Charged on Animals Slaughtered in Public Slaughterhouses.
Commonwealth Act No. 156
November 09, 1936
An Act Authorizing the Philippine Antituberculosis Society to Hold Horse Races, With Betting, for Charitable and Civic Purposes and to Promote Horse Breeding in these Islands.
Commonwealth Act No. 158
November 09, 1936
An Act to Amend Commonwealth Act Numbered Fifty-Seven, Entitled "An Act Establishing a Form of Government for the City of Iloilo."
Commonwealth Act No. 157
November 09, 1936
An Act Amending Article three Hundred and Fifteen, Paragraph Two, of the Revised Penal Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 159
November 09, 1936
An Act to Authorize the Participation of the Commonwealth of the Philippines in the International Exposition to Be Held At Paris, During the Year Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Seven.
Commonwealth Act No. 160
November 09, 1936
An Act to Authorize the Participation of the Commonwealth of the Philippines in the International Exposition to Be Held At Nagoya, Japan, During the Year Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Seven.
Commonwealth Act No. 161
November 09, 1936
An Act to Provide for the Establishment of three Leper Colonies in Luzon and to Appropriate the Sum of Five Hundred thousand Pesos for the Purpose.
Commonwealth Act No. 162
November 09, 1936
An Act Amending Section Four Hundred and Ninety-Nine of Act Numbered Twenty-Seven Hundred and Eleven, Otherwise Known as the Revised Administrative Code, Regarding the Right of Military Authorities to Eject Intruders From Military Reservations.
Commonwealth Act No. 163
November 09, 1936
An Act to Amend Section Nine Hundred and Forty-Seven of the Revised Administrative Code Relative to the Authority of the President of the Philippines to Invest the Director of Health With Special Powers in Certain Cases.
Commonwealth Act No. 164
November 09, 1936
An Act Reverting to the Unappropriated General Fund in the Philippine Treasury All Amounts Collected By the Bohol and Cagayan Filipino Colonies Established Under Act Numbered Twenty-Two Hundred and Fifty-Four.
Commonwealth Act No. 165
November 09, 1936
An Act Limiting the Rate of Salary or Wage Which An Employee or Laborer of the Government Marine Railway and Repair Shops Employed Under Act Numbered Forty- One Hundred and Eleven May Receive.
Commonwealth Act No. 166
November 12, 1936
An Act Appropriating Funds for the Survey and Subdivision of All Public Agricultural Lands Lying Parallel To, and Extending Within three Kilometers From, Both Sides of Any Public Highway.
Commonwealth Act No. 167
November 12, 1936
An Act to Amend Section Two of Act Numbered thirty-Five Hundred and Eighty-Two, Entitled "An Act to Create a Board of Censorship for Moving Pictures and Define Its Functions," in Order to Authorize Said Board to Appoint Such Representatives or Agents as May Be Necessary to Carry Out the Provisions of Said Act.
Commonwealth Act No. 168
November 12, 1936
An Act Providing for the Promotion and Development of Civil Aviation in the Philippines, Creating the Bureau of Aeronautics, and Defining Its Powers, Duties and Functions.
Commonwealth Act No. 169
November 12, 1936
An Act Appropriating the Sum of Fifty thousand Pesos to Be Expended Under the Direction of the President of the Philippines for the Purpose of Identifying and Appropriately Marking the Historic Antiquities in the Philippines, or Preserving, or Acquiring the Same.
Commonwealth Act No. 170
November 12, 1936
Census Act of Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Six
Commonwealth Act No. 171
November 12, 1936
An Act Adopting the Spanish Colonial Type of Architecture on All Buildings to Be Constructed, Altered, or Repaired in the District of Intramuros, City of Manila.
Commonwealth Act No. 172
November 12, 1936
An Act Authorizing Defenders of the Department of Labor and Any Agent of the Bureau of Labor thereunto Especially Deputed By the Secretary of Labor, the Undersecretary of Director of Labor, to Administer Oaths, Issue Subpoenas and Take Testimony.
Commonwealth Act No. 174
November 12, 1936
An Act to Amend Paragraph Six of Subsection Two of Section One of Acts Numbered Fifteen Hundred and Ten, Twenty-Eight Hundred and thirty-Six, and thirty-three Hundred and Ninety-Nine, to Authorize the Manila Railroad Company Ot the Philippine Islands to Construct Toll VIaducts, Toll Bridges, and Toll Tunnels.
Commonwealth Act No. 173
November 12, 1936
An Act to Appropriate Funds for Additional Equipment for the Bureau of Printing to Print Textbooks Prepared and Furnished By the Bureau of Education or Manuscripts Acquired By the Government.
Commonwealth Act No. 175
November 13, 1936
An Act to Amend Section Eleven Hundred and Fifty-One of Act Numbered Twenty-Seven Hundred and Eleven, Known as the Administrative Code, as Amended By Act Numbered thirty-One Hundred and Six, By Adding Jose Panga-Niban (Formerly Mambulao) and Appari as Ports of Entry, and Providing Necessary Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 176
November 13, 1936
An Act to Amend Section thirty-One of Act Numbered Twenty-One Hundred and Fifty-Two as Amended By Section Twelve of Act Numbered thirty-Five Hundred and Twenty-three.
Commonwealth Act No. 180
November 13, 1936
An Act to Amend Sections One, Two, three, Five, Six, and Twelve of Act Numbered Twenty-Seven Hundred and Six, as Amended By Act Numbered thirty Hundred and Seventy-Five; to Repeal Section Seventeen of Act Numbered Four thousand and Seven, Known as "the Reorganization Law of Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Two"; and to Establish the Office of Private Education to Be Headed By the Director of Private Education.
Commonwealth Act No. 177
November 13, 1936
An Act Amending and Repealing Some of the Provisions of Chapter Twenty-Seven of Act Numbered Twenty-Seven Hundred Eleven. Commonly Known as the Administrative Code of Nineteen Hundred and Seventeen, and Providing Funds to Defray the Necessary Expenses Due to the Extension of the Civil Service Law to All Branches and Subdivisions of the Government.
Commonwealth Act No. 178
November 13, 1936
An Act Amending Sections Seven, Fifteen, Twenty-three and Twenty-Nine of Act Numbered Four thousand and Fifty-Four, Entitled "An Act to Promote the Wellbeing of Tenants (Aparceros) in Agricultural Lands Devoted to the Production of Rice and to Regulate the Relations Between them and the Landlords of Said Lands, and for Other Purposes."
Commonwealth Act No. 179
November 13, 1936
An Act Creating a Division of Investigation Under the Commission of Civil Service for the Purpose of Carrying Into Effect the Provisions of Executive Order Numbered thirty-Nine of the President of the Philippines, and Appropriating Funds for the Necessary Expenses thereof.
Commonwealth Act No. 181
November 13, 1936
An Act Creating a Division of Investigation Under the Department of Justice, Defining Its Powers and Duties, and Appropriating the ,Necessary Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 182
November 13, 1936
An Act to Create a Public Corporation to Be Known as the "National Development Company," to Define Its Powers and Duties, to Appropriate the Necessary Funds therefor, Repealing thereby Acts Numbered Twenty-Eight Hundred and Forty-Nine and Twenty-Eight Hundred and Seventy-three.
Commonwealth Act No. 183
November 13, 1936
An Act Appropriating the Sum of Twenty-Five thousand Pesos as Aid to the Philippine Amateur Athletic Federation for the Promotion of Athletics And/Or Athletic Competition in the Schools and Other Civic Institutions of the Philippines.
Commonwealth Act No. 184
November 13, 1936
An Act to Establish a National Language Institute and Define Its Powers and Duties.
Commonwealth Act No. 185
November 13, 1936
An Act to Amend Sections One, Two and three of Commonwealth Act Numbered Ninety-Four, Entitled "An Act to Coordinate the Information and Publicity Agencies of the Government and to Provide Funds therefor", and to Insert a New Section After Section three of Said Act, to Be Known as Section three (A).
Commonwealth Act No. 191
November 14, 1936
An Act Authorizing the President of the Philippines to Negotiate With the President of the United states for An Economic-Trade Conference, and Providing Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 190
November 14, 1936
An Act to Establish a Retirement System for the Philippine Army and to Appropriate Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 189
November 14, 1936
An Act to Provide for the Liquidation of the Health Pension and Retirement Fund Created By Act Numbered three thousand One Hundred and Seventy-three, as Amended, and the Payment of Reduced Pensions to Indigent Beneficiaries thereof, and to Appropriate the Necessary Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 188
November 14, 1936
An Act to Provide for the Liquidation of the Pension and Retirement Fund of the Philippine Constabulary Created By Act Numbered One thousand Six Hundred and thirty-Eight, as Amended, and the Payment of Reduced Pensions to Certain Beneficiaries thereof, and to Appropriate the Necessary Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 187
November 14, 1936
An Act to Provide for the Liquidation of the Teachers' Retirement and Disability Fund, Established By Act Numbered thirty Hundred and Fifty, as Amended, for the Disposition of the Proceeds thereof, and the Payment of a Reduced Pension in Lieu of the Pension therein Provided.
Commonwealth Act No. 186
November 14, 1936
An Act to Create and Establish a "Government Service Insurance System," to Provide for Its Administration and to Appropriate the Necessary Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 194
November 18, 1936
An Act to Provide Tor the of Ties in Elections for Members of the National Assembly.
Commonwealth Act No. 193
November 14, 1936
An Act Appropriating Additional Funds to Defray Traveling Expenses to Homeseekers.
Commonwealth Act No. 192
November 14, 1936
An Act to Create a Public Corporation to Be Known as the National Produce Exchange, Authorizing thti Same to Establish Produce Exchanges for Agricultural Products, and to Appropriate the Necessary Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 197
November 18, 1936
An Act to Amend the First Paragraph of Section Four Hundred and Forty-Two of Act Numbered Twenty-Seven Hundred and Eleven, Known as the Revised Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 196
November 18, 1936
An Act Amending Section Eleven Hundred and Seventy-Two of Act Numbered Twenty-Seven Hundred and Eleven, Known as the Administrative Code of Nineteen Hundred and Seventeen, as Amended By Acts Numbered Twenty-Nine Hundred and Twelve and thirty Hundred and Eighty-Four.
Commonwealth Act No. 195
November 18, 1936
An Act to Amend Section Eight Hundred and Eighty-Seven of Act Numbered Twenty-Seven Hundred and Eleven, Otherwise Known as the Revised Administrative Code, and Section three of Act Numbered thirty Hundred and Ninety-Seven.
Commonwealth Act No. 198
November 18, 1936
An Act to Repeal Section Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Nine, as Amended, and to Amend Section Two thousand and Two, as Amended, of the Revised Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 199
November 18, 1936
An Act Postponing the Holding of Election of Provincial, City, and Municipal Officials Until the Year Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Eight, and Providing for the Continuance in Office of the Incumbents, Unless their Successors Are Appointed By the President of the Philippines.
Commonwealth Act No. 200
November 18, 1936
An Act Granting Sick Leave With Pay to Members of the Crew of Any Vessel of the Bureau of Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Commonwealth Act No. 201
November 18, 1936
An Act Amending Sections One, three, and Four and Repealing Section Two of Act Numbered Two thousand Five Hundred and Eighty Entitled "An Act Providing for the Publication and Recording in the Bureau of Posts the Names and Post-Office Addresses of Editors, Publishers, Managers, Owners and stockholders of Newspaper Publications, and for Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 202
November 18, 1936
An Act Amending Articles One Hundred and thirty-Nine, One Hundred and Forty-Two and One Hundred and Fifty-Four of Act Numbered three thousand Eight Hundred and Fifteen, Known as the Revised Penal Code of the Philippine Islands.
Commonwealth Act No. 203
November 18, 1936
An Act to Amend Paragraph (M) of Section Fourteen Hundred and Sixty-Four of the Revised Administrative Code, By Increasing the Fixed Tax on Retail Leaf Tobacco Dealers From Twenty Pesos to thirty Pesos Per Annum.
Commonwealth Act No. 205
November 20, 1936
An Act to Amend Section Two of Act Numbered three thousand and Seventy, Extending Its Provisions So as to Prevent the Use of Registered Containers When the Owner Has Reserved the Ownership, and Requires a Deposit for the Return thereof.
Commonwealth Act No. 204
November 18, 1936
An Act to Amend Section Four of Commonwealth Act Numbered Sixty-Seven So as to Authorize the Immediate Release of the Sums of Money Appropriated as to Items Two, Four, Five, Ten, and Fifteen, Subsection E, (K) of the Said Act, for the Maintenance, Repair, Improvement and Extension of River Control Works on the Pampanga River, in Pampanga; Agno, in Pangasinan; O'Donnell, in Tarlac; An Gat, in Bulacan; and Pampanga, in Nueva Ecija.
Commonwealth Act No. 206
November 20, 1936
An Act to Amend Section Sis of Act Numbered Four thousand and Fifty-One, Known as the Retirement Gratuity Act, as Amended By Act Numbered Four thousand Two Hundred and thirty-Eight.
Commonwealth Act No. 207
November 20, 1936
An Act to Amend Sections Twenty-Seven Hundred and Twenty-Seven and Twenty-Seven Hundred and Twenty-Eight of the Administrative Code, By Imposing a Penalty on Any Person Found in Possession of Articles Subject to Specific Tax, the Tax on Which Has Not Been Paid; By Providing for An Increased Penalty for Subsequent Unlawfnl Possession; and By Increasing the Penalty for a Subsequent Unlawful Removal of Such Articles.
Commonwealth Act No. 208
November 20, 1936
An Act Amending Sections Seven and thirty-Four of Commonwealth Act Numbered thirty-Nine.
Commonwealth Act No. 209
November 20, 1936
An Act Amending Sections Seven and thirty-Four of Commonwealth Act Numbered Fifty-One.
Commonwealth Act No. 210
November 20, 1936
An Act to Amend Further Sections three, Eight, thirteen, Fourteen, Sixteen, Twenty-three, Twenty-Four, Twenty-Five and thirty-Nine of Act Numbered thirty-Four Hundred and Twenty-Eight, Commonly Known as the Workmen'S Compensation Act, as Amended By Act Numbered thirty-Eight Hundred and Twelve.
Commonwealth Act No. 213
November 21, 1936
An Act to Define and Regulate Legitimate Labor Organizations.
Commonwealth Act No. 212
November 21, 1936
An Act to Further Amend Section One of Act Numbered thirty-Five Hundred as Amended.
Commonwealth Act No. 211
November 21, 1936
An Act to Fix A. Minimum Daily Wage for Laborers Employed in Public Work, and Providing Penalties for the VIolation thereof.
Commonwealth Act No. 215
November 21, 1936
An Act to Amend Sections Fourteen Hundred and Fifty-Seven, Fourteen Hundred and Fifty-Nine, Fourteen Hundred and Sixty-Four, Fourteen Hundred and Sixty-Six, and Fourteen Hundred and Seventy-three of Act Numbered Twenty-Seven Hundred and Eleven, Commonly Known as the Revised Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 214
November 21, 1936
An Act Appropriating Funds for the Establishment of Post Offices in Municipalities Without Postal Service and the Extension of Postal Savings Bank and Money Order Service in All Post Offices Without Such Facilities.
Commonwealth Act No. 216
November 24, 1936
An Act to Provide for the Issuance of Bonds of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines in the Amount of One Million Pesos, to Create a Revolving Fund for Public Markets Out of the Proceeds of the Sale of Such Bonds, and for Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 217
November 24, 1936
An Act to Amend Articles Sixty-One, Seventy and Seventy-One of the Revised Penal Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 138
November 07, 1936
An Act to Give Native Products and Domestic Entities the Preference in the Purchase of Articles for the Government
Commonwealth Act No. 137
November 07, 1936
An Act to Provide for the Conservation, Disposition, and Development of Mineral Lands and Minerals
Commonwealth Act No. 136
November 07, 1936
An Act Creating the Bureau of Mines.
Commonwealth Act No. 135
November 07, 1936
An Act Amending Section One thousand Amending Four Hundred and Eighty-Seven of Act Numbered Two thousand Seven Hundred and Eleven, Known as the Administrative Code, as Amended, for the Purpose of Revising the Specific Tax on Fermented Liquors Provided therein.
Commonwealth Act No. 134
November 07, 1936
An Act Appropriating the Sum of Fifty thousand Pesos for the Control and Eradication of Foot-And-Mouth Disease and Other Contagious Animal Diseases At Present threatening the Livestock Industry of the Country.
Commonwealth Act No. 133
November 06, 1936
An Act to Amend Act Numbered Twenty-Five Hundred and Eight, as Amended.
Commonwealth Act No. 132
November 06, 1936
An Act to Amend Act Numbered thirty-Six Hundred and thirty-Six Prescribing the Form for Bills on Electric Light and Power Franchises, So as to Conform to the Constitution, and to Require, Previous to the Granting of a Franchise, the Filing of a Petition to that Effect Together With One for More Certificates of Public Necessity and Convenience.
Commonwealth Act No. 131
November 06, 1936
An Act to Consider students While on Trainee Instruction or Regular Active Duty Training, in Regular Attendance in their Schools or Colleges, Entitling them to Special Examinations in the Year or Course in Which they Were Enrolled At the Time they Were Called for Trainee Instruction and Active Duty Training, and to Promotion to the Next Higher Year or Course Upon Passing1 Such Examination.
Commonwealth Act No. 130
November 06, 1936
An Act to Amend Section One of Act Numbered thirty-Five Hundred and Ninety-Two Known as the "Port Works Fund Act" and to Provide for the Disbursement of Said Fund So as to Include the Cost of the Investigation, Construction, Improvement and Maintenance of Buoys, Light-Houses, and Other Aids to Marine Navigation, and for Airports and Landing Fields of the Commonwealth Government, Including the Purchase and Maintenance of the Necessary Equipment for those Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 129
November 05, 1936
An Act to Amend Certain Sections of Commonwealth Act Numbered Fifty-Eight, Entitled "An Act Creating the City of Cebu."
Commonwealth Act No. 128
November 05, 1936
An Act to Impose a Percentage Tax on the Gross Receipts of theaters, Cinematographs, Concert Halls, Circuses, Cabarets, Race Tracks, and Other Places of Amusement.
Commonwealth Act No. 127
November 05, 1936
An Act to Provide An Emergency Fund for Elementary Classes and to Regulate the Expenditure thereof.
Commonwealth Act No. 126
November 05, 1936
An Act to Appropriate the Sum of three thousand Two Hundred and Seventy Pesos Out of Any Funds in the Philippine Treasury Not Otherwise Appropriated for the Purchase of Equipment, Supplies, and the Conversion Into a Second Class Weather station of the Present Weather station in Borongan, Samar.
Commonwealth Act No. 125
November 05, 1936
An Act to Create a Revolving Fund of Two Million Pesos for the Construction of Waterworks in the Philippines.
Commonwealth Act No. 124
November 03, 1936
An Act to Amend Section Four Hundred and Eighty-Seven of Act Numbered Twenty-Seven Hundred and Eleven, Known as the Revised Administrative Code, as Amended.
Commonwealth Act No. 123
November 03, 1936
An Act to Amend Section Eight, Article Two Chapter Two, and Section Seventy-three, Article Two, Chapter Four, of Act Number thirty-Nine Hundred and Ninety-Two, Known as the Revised Motor Vehicle Law.
Commonwealth Act No. 122
November 03, 1936
An Act to Amend Section Fourteen Hundred and Ninety-Five of Act Numbered Twenty-Seven Hundred and Eleven, Known as the Administrative Code, as Amended By Acts Numbered thirty-Two Hundred and Forty-Eight, thirty-Two Hundred and Seventy-Four, thirty-Five Hundred and Twenty-Six and Forty Hundred and Fifty-Eight, Levying- a Specific Tax on Motor Spirits and Allotting the Proceeds for the Maintenance, Improvement and Construction of Highways.
Commonwealth Act No. 121
November 03, 1936
An Act to Appropriate Funds for the Purchase of Primary Textbooks for the Bureau of Education.
Commonwealth Act No. 120
November 03, 1936
An Act Creating the "National Power Corporation," Prescribing; Its Powers and Activities, Appropriating the Necessary Funds therefor, and Reserving the Unappropriated Public Waters for Its Use.
Commonwealth Act No. 119
November 03, 1936
An Act to Appropriate Two Hundred and Fifty thousand Pesos for the Reforestation and Afforestation of Watersheds, Denuded Areas and Cogon or Open Lands Within Forest Reserves, Communal Forests, National Parks and Timberlands, Sand Dunes, and Ether Public Forest Lands in the Philippines.
Commonwealth Act No. 118
November 03, 1936
An Act Creating a Special Fund Known as "Philippine Livestock Promotion Fund" for the Development of the Philippine Livestock Industry through the Introduction, Propagation and Distribution of Purebred and Improved Breeding Animals, and for the Establishment of Public Breeding stations.
Commonwealth Act No. 117
November 03, 1936
An Act to Amend Sections One, three, Seven, Eight, Ten, Seventeen, and Twenty-One of Act Numbered Twenty-Eight Hundred and thirty-three, as Amended By Acts Numbered Twenty-Nine Hundred and Twenty-Six, thirty Hundred and Twenty-Six, thirty-Six Hundred and Five, and thirty-Seven Hundred and Sixty-One, Regarding Income Tax.
Commonwealth Act No. 116
November 03, 1936
An Act to Make the Rice and Corn Fund Created By Act Numbered Twenty-Eight Hundred and Eighteen, as Amended, Available for Loans Not Only to Agricultural Credit Cooperative Associations Organized Under Act Numbered Twenty-Five Hundred and Eight, as Amended, But Also to Cooperative Marketing Associations Organized Under Act Numbered thirty-Four Hundred and Twenty-Five, Ass Amended, to Make the Said Fund a Revolving Fund, to Authorize the National Loan and Investment Board to Issue Rules and Regulations, and to Provide Exemption From Court Fees and Legal Charges and the Manner of Publishing Notices of Sale.
Commonwealth Act No. 115
November 03, 1936
An Act to Amend Sections Sixty-Seven, Sixty-Nine and Seventy of Act Numbered Four thousand three, Otherwise Known as the Fisheries Act.
Commonwealth Act No. 114
November 03, 1936
An Act to Amend the Marriage Law, So as to Grant Facilities for Securing Marriage Licenses, Among Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 113
November 01, 1936
An Act to Amend Section Two of Act Numbered thirty-Two Hundred and Ninety-Two, as Amended By Section One of Act Numbered Forty-One Hundred and Seventy-Six, By Requiring that the Entries in Journals and Ledgers Kept in a Language Other than a Native Language, English or Spanish Shall Be Translated Into a Native Language, English or Spanish, By the Bookkeeper or Manager Who Shall Certify Under Oath as to the Correctness of Said Translation.
Commonwealth Act No. 112
October 31, 1936
An Act Authorizing the Investment of the Postal Savings Bank Fund, the Teachers' Retirement and Disability Fund, and the San Lazaro Instate Fund Under the Jurisdiction and Control of the National Loan and Investment Board in Advances to the National Government for the Construction of Toll Bridges, Providing for their Payment, and Appropriating the Necessary Funds to Cover Any Deficiency in the Payment of Such Advances.
Commonwealth Act No. 111
October 31, 1936
An Act to Create a Public Corporation to Be Known as the Boy Scouts of the Philippines, and to Define Its Powers and Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 110
October 30, 1936
An Act Appropriating the Sum of One Hundred thousand Pesos for the Purpose of Carrying Out the Campaign for the Extermination or Control of Locusts, to Be Expended in the Manner and Purposes Specified in Act Numbered thirty-Nine Hundred and Twenty-Four, and for the Control of Budrot and Other Cocoanut Pests.
Commonwealth Act No. 109
October 30, 1936
An Act to Amend Sections Two, Four and Five of Commonwealth Act Numbered Seven, Entitled "An Act to Create a National Loan and Investment Board, Defining Its Powers, and for Other Purposes."
Commonwealth Act No. 108
October 30, 1936
An Act to Punish Acts of Evasion of the Laws on the Nationalization of Certain Rights, Franchises or Privileges.
Commonwealth Act No. 107
October 29, 1936
An Act to Amend Act Numbered thirty-Nine Hundred and Ninety-Seven By Transferring the Duty to Collect the Radio Registration Fees Provided for in Said Act, and Extending the Application of All Special and General Administrative Provisions of Law Relative to Assessment, Remission, Collection and Refund of Internal Revenue Taxes to the Collection of Said Fees.
Commonwealth Act No. 106
October 29, 1936
An Art to Amend Section Fifteen Hundred and thirty-Six of Act Numbered Twenty-Seven Hundred and Eleven, as Amended, Relating to the Inheritance Tax.
Commonwealth Act No. 105
October 29, 1936
An Act Appropriating the Sum of Seventy-Five thousand Pesos for the Subdivision of All the Portions of the Friar Lands Estates Remaining Undisposed Of.
Commonwealth Act No. 104
October 29, 1936
An Act Authorizing the Secretary of Labor .To Promulgate and Enforce Rules, Regulations, and Orders for the Safety of Persons Employed in Mines, Quarries, Metallurgical Operations and Other Enterprises.
Commonwealth Act No. 103
October 29, 1936
An Act to Afford Protection of Labor By Creating a Court of Industrial Relations Empowered to Fix Minimum Wages for Laborers and Maximum Rentals to Be Paid By Tenants, and to Enforce Compulsory Arbitration Between Employers or Landlords, and Employees or Tenants, Respectively; and By Prescribing Penalties for the VIolation of Its Orders.
Commonwealth Act No. 102
October 29, 1936
An Act to Remit Arrears in the Cedula Tax and Penalties, Provided the Tax for the Year Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Seven Is Paid Before the First of May of that Year.
Commonwealth Act No. 101
October 28, 1936
An Act to Amend Section Two Hundred and Seven of 4Ct Numbered Twenty-Seven Hundred and Eleven Known as the Administrative Code, as Amended By Act Numbered Four thousand and Fifty-Seven and Act Numbered Four thousand One Hundred and Seventy-Nine.
Commonwealth Act No. 100
October 28, 1936
An Act to Further Amend Section Amending Eighteen Hundred and thirty-Eight of Act Numbered Twenty-Seven Hundred and Eleven, Known as the Revised Administrative Code, as Amended By Act Numbered thirty-Eight Hundred and Twenty.
Commonwealth Act No. 99
October 27, 1936
An Act to Amend Article Eighty of Act Amending Numbered thirty-Eight Hundred and Fifteen, Entitled "An Act Revising the Penal Code and Other Penal Laws," as Amended By Act Numbered Forty-One Hundred and Seventeen.
Commonwealth Act No. 98
October 27, 1936
An Act to Authorize the President of the Philippines to Effect Urgent Reforms and Changes in Radio Broadcasting; to Nationalize or Acquire the Same, and to Create a Radio Board.
Commonwealth Act No. 97
October 27, 1936
An Act to Regulate the Commercial Use of Airplanes Operated By Aviation Schools and By Companies Holding a Franchise.
Commonwealth Act No. 96
October 27, 1936
An Act to Amend the Revised Administrative Code So as to Authorize Provinces With Toll Roads or Bridges Financed From Loans or Bond Issues, to Obtain Loan, Without Interest and for Public Works Only, in An Amount Equivalent to Collections in Excess of that Required for the Payment of Annual Interest and Sinking Fund Charges on Said Loans or Bonds and for the Repair and Maintenance of Such Roads or Bridges.
Commonwealth Act No. 95
October 27, 1936
An Act Authorizing the Philippine National Bank, the National Development Company, and the Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce to Establish and Maintain Warehouses for Tobacco and Other Marketable Products.
Commonwealth Act No. 94
October 27, 1936
An Act to Coordinate the Information and Publicity Agencies of the Government, and to Provide Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 93
October 27, 1936
An Act to Amend Section Eighty-Six of the Corporation Law, Simplifying the Procedure for the Disposition of Freight, Goods, or Luggage Transported By a Railroad Corporation, and Abandoned Y Its Owner.
Commonwealth Act No. 92
October 27, 1936
An Act Authorizing the Appointment of Register of Deeds for third, Fourth and Fifth-Class Provinces.
Commonwealth Act No. 91
October 26, 1936
An Act to Fix the standard Time of the Philippines, and to Authorize the President of the Philippines to Establish a Daylight Savings Time therein.
Commonwealth Act No. 90
October 26, 1936
An Act to Appropriate the Sum of One Million Five Hundred thousand Pesos for the Relief of Communities and Indigent Sufferers From Typhoons, Floods, or Other Public Calamities.
Commonwealth Act No. 89
October 26, 1936
An Act to Define the Powers of the Provincial Sheriff and of the Courts in Connection With the Removal of Improvements in Ejectment Cases.
Commonwealth Act No. 88
October 26, 1936
An Act to Provide for the Organization and Maintenance of a state Police Force.
Commonwealth Act No. 87
October 26, 1936
An Act Giving the President Authority to Administer the Irrigation Systems Constructed By the Government Under Act Numbered Twenty-One Hundred and Fifty-Two, as Amended, and to Effect Adjustments in the Payments of Irrigation Charges, to Suspend Pending Judicial Proceedings for the Collection of Unpaid Charges and Penalties, and to Grant the Right of Repurchase.
Commonwealth Act No. 86
October 26, 1936
An Act to Amend Sections One, Two, and three of Act Numbered Twenty-Seven Hundred and Fifty-Eight, Entitled "An Act Providing for the Establishment of stock Herds and Farms for the Same, Appropriates Funds therefor, and for Other Purposes," as Amended By Act Numbered thirty-Six Hundred and thirty-Two, and to Also Amend Section Four of the Latter Amendatory Act, So as to Extend the Operation of Said Acts Not Only to Breeding stations and Slaughterhouses, But Also to Experiments and Researches on the Manufacture, Preservation and Utilization of Animal Products.
Commonwealth Act No. 85
October 26, 1936
An Act to Create the Positions of Provincial Agricultural Supervisors and Local Agricultural Supervisors and to Amend the Revised Administrative Code Accordingly.
Commonwealth Act No. 84
October 26, 1936
An Act to Provide Compensation or Allowances to Employees of the Municipal Governments in Case of Injury, Death, or Sickness Incurred in Performance of Duty, By Amending Section Six Hundred and Ninety-Nine of the Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 83
October 26, 1936
An Act to Regulate the Sale of Securities, to Create a Securities and Exchange Commission to Enforce the Provisions of the Same, and to Appropriate Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 82
October 26, 1936
An Act to Amend Paragraph (F) of Section One thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-Five of Act Numbered Twenty-Seven Hundred and Eleven, Known as the Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 81
October 26, 1936
An Act Amending Section Eight of Act Numbered Twenty-Four Hundred and Eighty-Nine, Entitled “An Act Authorizing Special Compensation, Credits, and Modification in the Sentence of Prisoners as a Reward for Exceptional Conduct and Workmanship, and for Other Purposes."
Commonwealth Act No. 80
October 26, 1936
An Act Creating the Office of Adult Education, Enumerating Its Duties, Defining Its Objectives, and Providing Funds for Its Operation.
Commonwealth Act No. 79
October 26, 1936
An Act Declaring the Honorable Francis Burton Harrison, Former Governor-General of the Philippines, a Citizen of the Philippines, and Conferring Upon Him All the Rights, Duties, Privileges and Prerogatives of Filipino Citizenship.
Commonwealth Act No. 78
October 26, 1936
An Act Transferring to the Secretary of Finance the Powers and Supervision Heretofore Exercised By the Secretary of the Interior Over the Financial Affairs and Financial Agencies of Provincial, Municipal and City Governments.
Commonwealth Act No. 77
October 26, 1936
An Act to Amend Sections Six, Eight, Fifteen, and Nineteen of Act Numbered Forty-One Hundred and Sixty-Six.
Commonwealth Act No. 76
October 24, 1936
An Act to Amend the Revised Administrative Code So as to Abolish the Limitation Upon the Power of the Municipal Board of Manila to Tax and Fix the License Fee on Dealers in New Automobiles or Accessories or Both, and on Retail Dealers in New Merchandise Which Are Not Yet Subject to the Payment of Any Municipal Tax.
Commonwealth Act No. 75
October 24, 1936
An Act Abolishing the Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes and Making the Necessary Provisions for the Administrative Adjustments Resulting therefrom, Including the Creation of the Position of Commissioner for Mindanao and Sulu.
Commonwealth Act No. 74
October 24, 1936
An Act to Provide that Any General Revision of the Assessments for Any Municipality or Municipalities By the Provincial Assessor of the Respective Province During the Year Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Six Shall Become Effective as of January First of that Year.
Commonwealth Act No. 73
October 23, 1936
An Act Prohibiting the Killing, Hunting, Wounding or Taking Away of Bubalus Mindoremis, Commonly Known as Tamaraw.
Commonwealth Act No. 72
October 23, 1936
An Act to Provide that Notaries Public Shall Forward At Certain Periods Copies of All Documents Acknowledged Before them to the Clerk of the Corresponding Court of First Instance and for Punishment in the Event of Failure to Comply With the Provisions of Sections Two Hundred Forty-Six and Two Hundred Forty-Seven of the Revised Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 71
October 23, 1936
An Act to Amend Sections Eighty-Nine and Ninety of Commonwealth Act Numbered One, Known as the National Defense Act, Providing for the Grades and Pay of Air Mechanics in the Army of the Philippines.
Commonwealth Act No. 70
October 23, 1936
An Act Repealing Section Sixty and Amending Sections Sixty-Nine and Seventy-Six of Commonwealth Act Numbered One, Known as the National Defense Act.
Commonwealth Act No. 69
October 23, 1936
An Act to Amend Sections thirty-Nine and Forty of the National Defense Act.
Commonwealth Act No. 68
October 23, 1936
An Act to Provide for An Officer to Act as President of the Philippines Under Sections Seven and Nine, Article VIi of the Constitution.
Commonwealth Act No. 67
October 23, 1936
An Act Making Appropriations for Public Works.
Commonwealth Act No. 66
October 22, 1936
An Act Providing for the Verification Free of Charge By Justices of the Peace as Notaries Ex Officio, and for the Registration Free of Charge By Registers of Deeds, of Instruments Concerning Agricultural or Crop Loans Not Exceeding Two Hundred Pesos Made to Small Farmers By the Philippine National Bank.
Commonwealth Act No. 65
October 22, 1936
An Act to Declare that Public Act Numbered Five Hundred and Twenty-One, Known as "Carriage of Goods By Sea Act," Enacted By the Seventy-Fourth Congress of the United states, Be Accepted, as It Is Hereby Accepted By the National Assembly.
Commonwealth Act No. 64
October 21, 1936
An Act to Amend Section Four of Act Numbered Eighteen Hundred and Seventy, Entitled "An Act for the Purpose of Founding a University for the .Philippine Islands, Giving It Corporate Existence, Providing for a Board of Regents, Defining the Board'S Responsibilities and Duties, Providing Higher and Professional Instruction, and for Other Purposes," as Amended.
Commonwealth Act No. 63
October 21, 1936
An Act Providing for the Ways in Which Philippine Citizenship May Be Lost or Reacquired.
Commonwealth Act No. 62
October 20, 1936
An Act to Amend Section Four of Act Numbered thirty-Six Hundred and thirteen, Commonly Known as the Marriage Law, By Authorizing the Presiding Judge and Appellate Judges of the Court of Appeals to Solemnize Marriages.
Commonwealth Act No. 61
October 20, 1936
An Act to Appropriate the Sum of Twenty-One thousand Pesos for the Operation and Maintenance of the Institution Established in Welfareville Under Act Numbered Forty-Two Hundred and Nine.
Commonwealth Act No. 60
October 20, 1936
An Act to Amend Certain Sections 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 By Acts Numbered thirty-One Hundred and Nine and Forty Hundred and Seventy-Nine.
Commonwealth Act No. 59
October 20, 1936
An Act Authorizing the "Manila Railroad Company of the Philippine Islands" to Discontinue and Abandon Its Railroad Lines Between: (A) the Municipalities Ot Pasig (Rosario) and Montalban, Province of Rizal; (B) the Railroad station At Paco, Manila and the Municipality of Naic, Province of Cavite; (C) the Municipalities of Batangas and Bauan, Province of Batangas; and (D) the Municipalities of Legaspi and Tabaco, Province of Albay.
Commonwealth Act No. 58
October 20, 1936
An Act Creating the City of Cebu.
Commonwealth Act No. 57
October 20, 1936
An Act Establishing a Form of Government for the City of Iloilo.
Commonwealth Act No. 56
October 17, 1936
An Act to Amend Sections Eight Hundred and Seventy-Eight, Eight Hundred and Eighty-three, and Two thousand Six Hundred and Ninety-Two of Act Numbered Two thousand Seven Hundred and Eleven, Known as the Revised Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 55
October 17, 1936
An Act to Amend Section One of Act Numbered thirty-Seven Hundred and thirty-Six, By Providing that the Provisions of the Said Act Shall Not Apply to Cases Involving Liability for Any Tax, Duty, or Charge Collectible Under Any Law Administered By the Bureau of Customs or the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
Commonwealth Act No. 54
October 17, 1936
An Act Authorizing the Establishment of a Board on Documents to Have Charge of the Examination and Disposal of Old Documents, Public Records, and Papers in the Different Bureaus and Offices of the Government, and Defining Its Duties.
Commonwealth Act No. 53
October 17, 1936
An Act to Provide that the Testimony of a Lessee or Tenant Shall Be Accepted, in Certain Cases, as "Prima Facie" Evidence on the Terms of His Contract With the Owner of Land.
Commonwealth Act No. 52
October 16, 1936
An Act Amending Article One Hundred and Fifty of the Revised Penal Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 51
October 16, 1936
An Act Creating the City of Davao.
Commonwealth Act No. 50
October 14, 1936
An Act Directing the Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce, the Philippine National Bank, and the National Development Company to Establish, Operate, and Maintain Warehouses for Copra and Other Marketable Products.
Commonwealth Act No. 49
October 13, 1936
An Act Designating the Sixteenth Day of October of Each Year as the Date for the Opening of the Regular Session of the National Assembly.
Commonwealth Act No. 48
October 13, 1936
An Act to Amend Section One, Paragraph a (C): Antique, Item Numbered 9; Bohol, Item Numbered 1; Cebu, Items Numbered 1, 3, 31, 36, 37, 38, 39, and 43; Mountain Province, Item Numbered 11; and Section One, Paragraph B (F): Camarines Sur, Item Numbered 1 of Act Numbered Forty-Two Hundred and Forty-One, Otherwise Known as the Public Works Act.
Commonwealth Act No. 47
October 13, 1936
An Act to Amend Section One, Paragraph A-(C): Cebu Items Numbered 28 and 34; and Section Two of Act Numbered Forty-One Hundred and Eighty, Otherwise Known as the Public Works Act.
Commonwealth Act No. 46
October 13, 1936
An Act to Amend Sections One and Six Amending 3740 of Act Numbered thirty-Seven Hundred and Forty, Entitled "An Act to Penalize Fraudulent Advertising, Mislabeling, or Misbranding of Any Product, stock, Bonds, Etc.", By Amplifying the Scope of Section One and Raising the Minimum Penalty Provided for in Section Six.
Commonwealth Act No. 45
October 13, 1936
An Act to Amend Section Four Hundred and thirty-Six of the Election Law, Being Chapter Eighteen of Act Numbered Twenty-Seven Hundred and Eleven, Known as the Revised Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 44
October 13, 1936
An Act Applying the General Provisions of the Election Law to the Election of Assemblymen From the Provinces of Lanao, Cotabato, and Sulu.
Commonwealth Act No. 43
October 13, 1936
An Act to Amend Subsection (A) of Section Two and to Repeal Section Six of Act Numbered Forty-One Hundred and Eighty-Four, Entitled "An Act to Provide for Laborer'S Dwellings, Appropriate Funds therefor and for Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 42
October 13, 1936
An Act to Amend Section Two thousand Six Hundred and Seventeen of the Revised Administrative Code.
Commonwealth Act No. 41
October 12, 1936
An Act Authorizing the Provincial, Municipal, and City Governments to Appropriate Funds to Purchase Real or Personal Property and to Donate the Same to the National Government for the Use of the Philippine Army.
Commonwealth Act No. 40
October 12, 1936
An Act to Revive Civil Case No. 47549 of the Court of First Instance of Manila, By Repealing Section’ Two of Act Numbered Forty-Two Hundred and Sixty.
Commonwealth Act No. 39
October 12, 1936
An Act Creating the City of Zamboanga.
Commonwealth Act No. 38
October 12, 1936
An Act Appropriating Funds for the Necessary Ex­Penses of the Government of the Philippines During the Fiscal Year Ending December thirty-First, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Seven.
Commonwealth Act No. 37
October 07, 1936
An Act Increasing the Rates of Salaries and Wanes of Low-Paid Employees and Common Laborers of the National Government to the Minimum Rates Fixed By the President Under Executive Orders Numbered Forty-Nine and Fifty, Elated August Nineteenth and Twenty-Fourth, Respectively, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Six, and Appropriating the Necessary Funds to Cover the Amount of the Increases for the Period From September First to December thirty-First, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Six.
Commonwealth Act No. 36
October 07, 1936
An Act to Amend Section One of Act Numbered thirty-Five Hundred and Ninety-Seven, as Amended By Act Numbered thirty-Eight Hundred and Fifty-Five, Authorizing the Construction of National Government Buildings and the Alteration and Improvement of the Official Residences of the President of the Philippines in the Cities of Manila and Baguio, and Providing Funds therefor.
Commonwealth Act No. 35
October 06, 1936
An Act to Amend Sections One, Two, Six, and Seven of Act Numbered Four thousand One Hundred and Eighty-One, as Amended, in Order to Consolidate All Taxes or Real Properly and the Penalties thereon Due But Unpaid for the Year Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Five and Previous Years, to Provide Time and Manner of Payment of Said Taxes, and Setting Aside Forfeitures Heretofore Effected.
Commonwealth Act No. 34
September 30, 1936
An Act to Provide for the Holding of a Plebiscite on the Question of Woman Suffrage.
Commonwealth Act No. 33
September 22, 1936
An Act Authorizing: the President of the Philippines to Receive and Accept Donations of Money Made for the National Defense and to Prescribe the Rules and Regulations Under Which the Donated Money May Be Expended By the Philippine Army.
Commonwealth Act No. 32
September 15, 1936
An Act Providing for the Subdivision and Sale of All the Portions of the Friar Lands Estates Remaining Undisposed Of.
Commonwealth Act No. 31
September 14, 1936
An Act to Authorize Philippines to Present Decoration to Juan Calvo for their Extraordinary and Manila to Madrid, Appropriating Funds thereof.
Commonwealth Act No. 30
September 08, 1936
An Act to Amend Sections thirty-Four, thirty-Six and thirty-Seven of Act Numbered Twenty-Eight Hundred and Seventy-Four Known as "the Public Land Act."
Commonwealth Act No. 29
September 08, 1936
An Act Changing the Name of the Barrio of Gumalpong. Municipality of Baco, Province of Mindoro, to that of Santa Rosa.
Commonwealth Act No. 28
September 08, 1936
An Act Changing the Name of the Barrio of Payompon, Municipality of Sablayan, Province of Mindoro, to that of Buenavista.
Commonwealth Act No. 27
September 08, 1936
An Act Changing the Name of the Barrio of San Francisco, Municipality of Zaragoza, Province of Nueva Ecija, to that of General Luna.
Commonwealth Act No. 26
September 08, 1936
An Act Changing the Name of the Municipality of Quingua, Province of Bulacan, to that of Plaridel in Memory of the Patriot Marcelo H. Del Pilar.
Commonwealth Act No. 25
August 31, 1936
An Act Authorizing the President of the Philippines to Use Any Unexpended Balance of Any Appropriation, or Part thereof, Provided for Under Section Ninety-Eighth of Commonwealth Act Numbered One, to Cover Deficits in the Appropriations for the Construction of Mobilization and Training Centers Provided in the Same Section of the Said Act.
Commonwealth Act No. 24
August 31, 1936
An Act to Amend Section One of Commonwealth Act Numbered Eleven.
Commonwealth Act No. 23
August 31, 1936
An Act Appropriations An Additional Sum of Eighty-Four thousand Nine Hundred Eighty-Nine Pesos for the Expenses of the Bureau of Health for the Operation and Maintenance of the National Psychopathic Hospital During the Period From August First to December thirty-First, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Six, Subject to Certain Exceptions, Including Salaries of Personnel, Sundry Expenses, Furniture and Equipment, and (He Improvement of the Service in the Institution.
Commonwealth Act No. 22
July 28, 1936
An Act to Amend Section Two thousand Six Hundred and Live of the Revised Administrative Code, By Authorizing the President of the Philippines to Designate Any Officer or Employee or Suitable Person Not in the Service as Acting Provincial Governor, Under Certain Conditions, and for Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 21
July 20, 1936
An Act Providing for Special Elections to Fill Vacancies in She National Assembly
Commonwealth Act No. 20
July 11, 1936
An Act Authorizing the President of the Philippines to Order the Institution of Expropriation Proceedings or to Enter Into Negotiations for the Purpose of Acquiring Portions of Large Landed Estates Used as Home Sites and Reselling them At Cost to their Bona Fide Occupants, Appropriating Funds therefor, and for Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 19
January 02, 1936
An Act to Amend Section Two, Letter B, of Act .Numbered Four thousand One Hundred Eighty-Seven as Authorized and Amended By Section One of Act Numbered Four thousand Two Hundred thirty-One, and for Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 18
January 02, 1936
An Act to Amend Section thirteen of Act Numbered Forty-One Hundred and Ninety-Seven, Entitled "An Art to Facilitate and Promote the Occupation and Cultivation of Public Land At Present Unoccupied By the Establishment of Settlement Districts, Appropriate the Sum of One Mil Lion Pesos for Said Purpose, and for Other Purposes," By Making the Fund therein Appropriated Available for the Construction and Maintenance of Roads and Bridges.
Commonwealth Act No. 17
December 31, 1935
An Act Designating the Date for the Opening of the Regular Session of the National Assembly.
Commonwealth Act No. 16
December 31, 1935
An Act Appropriating the Sum of Sixty thousand Pesos, or So Much thereof as May Be Necessary, to Defray the Expenses of a Filipino Athletic Delegation to the Eleventh Olympiad.
Commonwealth Act No. 15
December 31, 1935
An Act to Appropriate the Sum of thirty thousand Pesos for the Operation and Maintenance of the Junior College of Liberal Arts of the University of the Philippines in the Municipality of Cebu, Province of Cebu, During the Fiscal Year Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Six. and for Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 14
December 31, 1935
An Act Fixing the Salary of the Speaker of the National Assembly At Twelve thousand Pesos Per Annum.
Commonwealth Act No. 13
December 31, 1935
An Act to Appropriate the Sum of One Hundred thousand Pesos for the Relief and Rehabilitation of Indigent Sufferers From Typhoons, Floods, or Other Public Calamities, and for Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 12
December 31, 1935
An Act Appropriating the Sum of One Hundred thousand Pesos for the Purpose of Carrying Out the Campaign for the Extermination or Control of Locusts, to Be Expended in the Manner and Purposes Specified in Act Numbered thirty-Nine Hundred and Twenty-Four, and for the Control of Budrot and Other Cocoanut Pests, and for Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 11
December 31, 1935
An Act to Vest in the President of the Philippines or in Such Person or Persons as He May Designate, From Time to Time, All Powers Over the Government Business Companies Heretofore Vested By Law in the Board of Control or Committee Authorized By Law to Represent the stock Held By the Government in Such Companies, and for Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 10
December 31, 1935
An Act to Provide for the Appointment, Qualifications, Compensation and Expenses of the Resident Commissioner of the Philippines to the United states, Appropriate Funds therefor, and for Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 9
December 31, 1935
An Act to Amend Section One of Act Numbered Forty-Two Hundred Twenty-Seven, Entitled "An Act Authorizing the Payment of Transportation and Other Incidental Expenses of the Officers of the Government of the United states and Other Guests of the Philippine Government, Including their Families, to Attend the Inauguration of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines and Appropriating Funds therefor," as Amended By Act Numbered Forty-Two Hundred Forty-Eight, By Increasing to Two Hundred Ninety thousand Pesos, the Sum Authorized therein, and for Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 8
December 31, 1935
An Act Appropriating the Sum of Five Hundred thousand Pesos Out of the Sixty Per Centum" Available for Investigation, Construction, and Improvement of Ports of the "Port Works Fund" Created By Act Numbered three thousand Five Hundred and Ninety-Two, to Be Transferred to the General Fund to Reimburse in Part the Payments Made in Prior Years From the General Fund for the Interests and Sinking Funds of the Bonds Issued By VIrtue of Act Numbered Two thousand Nine Hundred and Eight and the Interests and Sinking Funds for the Year Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Six of the Bonds Issued By VIrtue of Acts Numbered three thousand Four Hundred and thirteen and three thousand Four Hundred and Seventeen.
Commonwealth Act No. 7
December 31, 1935
An Act to Create a National Loan and Investment Board, Defining Its Powers, and for Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 6
December 31, 1935
An Act Authorizing the Philippine National Bank to Write Up the Value of Certain Assets Which Had Been Considered as Losses and Written Off in Pursuance of Act Numbered thirty-One Hundred and Seventy-Four, to Pay to the Government An Equivalent Amount thereof, and for Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 5
December 31, 1935
An Act Giving the President for a Limited Period Authority to Effect Urgent Reforms and Changes in the Different Executive Departments, Bureaus and Offices of the Government for Purposes of Economy and Efficiency, Creating a Government Survey Board and Appropriating the Necessary Funds therefore, and for Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 4
December 31, 1935
An Act to Provide Funds to He Loaned to the Manila Railroad Company for the Purchase or Redemption Before Maturity of Certain Outstanding Manila Railroad Company First Mortgage Southern Lines Four Per Cent Gold Bonds Due May First, Nineteen Hundred and thirty Nine, and for Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 3
December 31, 1935
An Act to Amend Certain Provisions of the Revised Administrative Code on the Judiciary, By Reducing the Number of Justices of the Supreme Court and Creating the Court of Appeals and Defining their Respective Jurisdictions, Appropriating Funds therefor, and for Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 2
December 23, 1935
An Act Creating the National Economic Council, Prescribing Its Powers and Duties, Appropriating Funds therefor, and for Other Purposes.
Commonwealth Act No. 1
December 21, 1935
An Act to Provide for the National Defense of the Philippines, Penalizing Certain VIolations thereof, Appropriating Funds therefor, and for Other Purposes.
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