Executive Order No. 313, s. 1950

Signed on May 1, 1950

MALACAÑANG
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 313

REGULATING THE ISSUANCE OF BUILDING PERMITS TO AMERICAN NATIONALS OR ASSOCIATIONS FOR THE ERECTION OF WAR MEMORIALS OR MONUMENTS IN THE PHILIPPINES

By virtue of the powers vested in me by law, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, do hereby order that no building permit for the erection of any war memorial or monument in any place in the Philippines shall be issued in favor of any American national or association without the previous recommendation of the American Battle Monuments Commission of the United States Government. Any memorial or monument constructed in violation of this order shall be demolished or remodelled at the expense of the builder in accordance with the order of the said commission.

Done in the City of Baguio, this 1st day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fourth.

(Sgd.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) TEODORO EVANGELISTA
Executive Secretary

Source: Presidential Museum and Library

Quirino, E. (1950). Executive Order No. 313 : Regulating the issuance of building permits to American Nationals or Associations for the Erection of War memorials or monuments in the Philippines. Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines, 46 (5), 1941-1942.