Executive Order No. 396 (1941)
Reorganizing and Grouping the Executive Departments of the Government
MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 396, December 24, 1941 ]
REORGANIZING AND GROUPING THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS OF THE GOVERNMENT
Pursuant to the authority conferred upon me by the Constitution and laws of the Philippines, the Executive Departments of the Government are hereby reorganized and grouped as follows:
Office of the President Department of Finance, Agriculture and Commerce Department of National Defense, Public Works, Communications, and labor Department of Public Instruction, Health, and Welfare
All the functions pertaining to the Department of Justice shall be performed by the Chief Justice of the supreme Court.
Done at the City of Manila, this 24th day of December, in the rear of our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-one, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the seventh.
(Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President