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Commonwealth Acts
733 acts · 1935–1946
37 acts in May 1940
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- Commonwealth Act No. 554 An Act to Liquidate the Municipal Loan Fund, the Private Surveyors' Loan Fund, and the Friar Lands Loan Fund.
- Commonwealth Act No. 553 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 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 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 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 An Act Creating .the Position of Deputy Commissioner of the Budget and Appropriating the Necessary Amount therefor.
- Commonwealth Act No. 548 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 An Act Creating the City of Cavite
- Commonwealth Act No. 546 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 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 An Act to Create Eight Positions of District Attorneys, Appropriating the Necessary Funds therefor.
- Commonwealth Act No. 543 An Act to Amend Section One thousand Six Hundred and Fifty-Nine of the Administrative Code.
- Commonwealth Act No. 542 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 An Act to Regulate the Awarding of Contracts for the Construction or Repair of Public Works.
- Commonwealth Act No. 540 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 AN ACT TO FIX THE SALARY OF THE AUDITOR GENERAL AT FIFTEEN THOUSAND PESOS PER ANNUM.
- Commonwealth Act No. 531 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 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.