Commonwealth Act 453

Full Title
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.
Date of Approval
June 7, 1939

Commonwealth Act 455

Full Title
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS THREE HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN, THREE HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT, AND THREE HUNDRED FORTY OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE.
Date of Approval
June 7, 1939

Commonwealth Act 456

Full Title
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.
Date of Approval
June 7, 1939

Commonwealth Act 460

Full Title
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 THRTY-EIGHT, AS AMENDED BY ACT NUMBERED FORTY-ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY.
Date of Approval
June 8, 1939

Commonwealth Act 461

Full Title
AN ACT TO REGULATE THE RELATIONS BETWEEN LANDOWNER AND TENANT AND TO PROVIDE FOR COMPULSORY ARBITRATION OF ANY CONTROVERSY ARISING BETWEEN THEM.
Date of Approval
June 8, 1939

Commonwealth Act 462

Full Title
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.
Date of Approval
June 13, 1939

Commonwealth Act 467

Full Title
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.
Date of Approval
June 14, 1939

Commonwealth Act 468

Full Title
AN ACT TO CREATE AN ADVANCE FUND OF TWO MILLION PESOS TO FINANCE A GENERAL-REVISION OF REAL PROPERTY ASSESMENTS IN THE PROVINCES.
Date of Approval
June 14, 1939

Commonwealth Act 471

Full Title
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."
Date of Approval
June 15, 1939

Commonwealth Act 472

Full Title
AN ACT REVISING THE GENERAL AUTHORITY OF MUNICIPAL COUNCILS AND MUNICIPAL DISTRICT COUNCILS TO LEVY TAXES, SUBJECT TO CERTAIN LIMITATIONS.
Date of Approval
June 15, 1939

Commonwealth Act 474

Full Title
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.
Date of Approval
June 16, 1939

Commonwealth Act 475

Full Title
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."
Date of Approval
June 16, 1939

Commonwealth Act 477

Full Title
AN ACT TO INCLUDE ALL DEPUTY GOVERNORS AND SPECIAL AGENTS OF THE SPECIALLY ORGANIZED PROVINCES AMONG OFFICERS EMBRACED IN UNCLASSIFIED SERVICE.
Date of Approval
June 17, 1939

Commonwealth Act 479

Full Title
AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE PAYMENT OF PER DIEMS TO VICE-MAYORS AND COUNCILORS OF THE MUNICIPILATIES OF SPECIALLY ORGANIZED PROVINCES AND OF THE MUNICIPAL DISTRICTS OF ALL PROVINCES.
Date of Approval
June 17, 1939

Commonwealth Act 480

Full Title
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.
Date of Approval
June 17, 1939

Commonwealth Act 482

Full Title
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.
Date of Approval
June 17, 1939

Commonwealth Act 483

Full Title
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.
Date of Approval
June 17, 1939

Commonwealth Act 484

Full Title
bAN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS ONE, THREE AND FOUR 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."
Date of Approval
June 17, 1939

Commonwealth Act 487

Full Title
AN ACT TO GRANT THE COTABATO LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY, INCORPORATED, A FRANCHISE FOR AN ELECTRIC LIGHT, HEAT AND POWER SYSTEM IN COTABATO, COTABATO.
Date of Approval
June 17, 1939
Major Topic

Commonwealth Act 488

Full Title
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.
Date of Approval
June 17, 1939
Major Topic

Commonwealth Act 489

Full Title
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION SEVEN OF COMMONWEALTH ACT NUMBERED FIFTY-SEVEN AS AMENDED BY COMMONWEALTH ACT NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-EIGHT.
Date of Approval
June 17, 1939

Commonwealth Act 490

Full Title
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 EIGHT-FIVE-A OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, AS AMENDED BY COMMONWEALTH ACT NUMBERED TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY.
Date of Approval
June 17, 1939

Commonwealth Act 491

Full Title
AN ACT TO AMEND CERTAIN SECTIONS OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED AND NINETY, ENTITLED "AN ACT FOR THE PROTECTION OF GAME AND FISH."
Date of Approval
June 17, 1939

Commonwealth Act 492

Full Title
AN ACT TO SUBMIT TO THE FILIPINO PEOPLE, FOR APPROVAL THE AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE PHILIPPINES AND TO THE ORDINANCE APPENDED THERETO PROPOSED BY THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY IN RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON SEPTEMBER 15, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY-NINE, AND TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS THEREFOR.
Date of Approval
September 18, 1939

Commonwealth Act 494

Full Title
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES TO SUSPEND, UNTIL THE 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.
Date of Approval
September 29, 1939

Commonwealth Act 496

Full Title
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 AND TO APPROPRIATE THE NECESSARY FUNDS THEREFOR.
Date of Approval
September 29, 1939

Commonwealth Act 498

Full Title
AN ACT TO DECLARE IN VIEW OF THE EXISTENCE OF THE 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 APPROPRIATIONS THEREFOR.
Date of Approval
September 29, 1939

Commonwealth Act 499

Full Title
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 THEREOF.
Date of Approval
September 29, 1939
Major Topic

Commonwealth Act 500

Full Title
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.
Date of Approval
September 29, 1939