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733 acts · 1935–1946

1940s

221 acts from the 1940s

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  1. Nov 1, 1945 Commonwealth Act No. 709 An Act Appropriating the Sum of Five Million Pesos to Enable the National Housing Commission to Resume Its Functions.
  2. Nov 1, 1945 Commonwealth Act No. 708 An Act Granting a Gratuity to the Widow of the Late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Jose Abad Santos, and Appropriating Funds therefor.
  3. Nov 1, 1945 Commonwealth Act No. 707 An Act to Rehabilitate the Manila Railroad Company, Appropriating Funds therefor.
  4. Nov 1, 1945 Commonwealth Act No. 706 An Act Providing for the Payment of the Life Insurance Policies Issued By the Government Insurance System and Appropriating Funds therefor.
  5. Nov 1, 1945 Commonwealth Act No. 705 An Act Appropriating Funds as Aid to National, Provincial and City Hospitals and their Dispensaries.
  6. Nov 1, 1945 Commonwealth Act No. 704 An Act to Establish Municipal Maternity and Charity Clinic
  1. Nov 1, 1945 Commonwealth Act No. 703 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.
  2. Nov 1, 1945 Commonwealth Act No. 702 An Act Changing the Name of the Barrio of Monreal, Municipality of San Jacinto, Province of Masbate, to that of "Ago".
  3. Nov 1, 1945 Commonwealth Act No. 701 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.
  4. Nov 1, 1945 Commonwealth Act No. 700 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.
  5. Oct 15, 1945 Commonwealth Act No. 698 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.
  6. Oct 15, 1945 Commonwealth Act No. 697 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.
  7. Oct 15, 1945 Commonwealth Act No. 696 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."
  8. Oct 15, 1945 Commonwealth Act No. 695 An Act Creating a Bureau of Labor Under the Administrative Supervision of the Department of Labor and Appropriating Funds therefor.
  9. Oct 15, 1945 Commonwealth Act No. 694 An Act Creating the Agricultural Machinery and Equipment Corporation
  10. Oct 15, 1945 Commonwealth Act No. 693 An Act to Provide for a Life Pension for Dona Aurora Aragon De Quezon, Widow of the Late President Manuel L. Quezon.
  11. Oct 15, 1945 Commonwealth Act No. 692 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.
  12. Oct 15, 1945 Commonwealth Act No. 691 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.
  13. Oct 15, 1945 Commonwealth Act No. 690 An Act Tto Change the Name of the Municipality of Indan, Province of Camarines Norte, to "VInzons."
  14. Oct 15, 1945 Commonwealth Act No. 689 An Act to Penalize Speculation or Rents of Buildings Destined for Dwelling Purposes.
  15. Oct 15, 1945 Commonwealth Act No. 688 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.
  16. Sep 26, 1945 Commonwealth Act No. 687 An Act Authorizing the Separation of the Subprovince of Catanduanes From the Province of Albay and Its Establishment as An Independent Province.
  17. Sep 26, 1945 Commonwealth Act No. 686 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.
  18. Sep 26, 1945 Commonwealth Act No. 685 An Act Appropriating the Sum of Two Hundred thousand Pesos for the Control of Venereal Diseases.
  19. Sep 26, 1945 Commonwealth Act No. 684 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.