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733 acts · 1935–1946
160 acts in 1938
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- Commonwealth Act No. 387 An Act Granting to the United Press Associations a Franchise to Construct, Maintain and Operate in the Philippines stations for the Reception and Transmission of Wireless Long Distance Messages, Pictures or Other Matter Pertaining to the Press.
- Commonwealth Act No. 386 An Act Granting to the Philippine Press Wireless, Inc., a Franchise to Construct, Maintain and Operate in the Philippines stations for the Reception and Transmission of Wireless Long Distance Messages, Pictures or Other Matter Pertaining to the Press.
- Commonwealth Act No. 385 An Act to Amend Sections Seventeen, Nineteen, Twenty-Two, Twenty-Five, thirty-One, Forty, Fifty-Two, Seventy-Six-A, Seventy-Eight, Eighty-Nine, Ninety-Five and Ninety-Seven of Commonwealth Act Numbered One, Known as the National Defense Act, as Amended, and Inserting Four New Sections in Said Act to Be Known as Sections Twenty-Five-A, Twenty-Five-B-Ninety—A and Ninety-One-A.
- Commonwealth Act No. 384 An Act to Amend Several Sections of Act Numbered Twenty-Eight Hundred and thirty-Two Entitled "An Act Creating a Public Corporation Denominated the Metropolitan Water District, Prescribing Its Functions and Activities, and for Other Purposes", as Amended By Act Numbered Forty-Hundred and Seventy-Nine and By Commonwealth Act Numbered Sixty.
- Commonwealth Act No. 383 An Act to Punish the Dumping Into Any River of Refuse, Waste Matter or Substances of Any Kind Whatsoever that May Bring About the Rise or Filling in of River Beds or Cause Artificial Alluvial Formations.
- Commonwealth Act No. 382 An Act to Adopt the Original Authentic Form of the Philippine National Anthem and to Appropriate Funds for Its Printing and Free Distribution.
- Commonwealth Act No. 381 An Act Providing for the Support of Primary and Intermediate Education and for Other Purposes.
- Commonwealth Act No. 380 An Act Requiring the Manage for Person in Charge of Any Sweepstake, Lottery or Other Similar Scheme for the Distribution of Prizes, Authorized to Be Conducted By the National Government or By Any Subdivision, Agency or Instrumentality thereof, to Deduct the Income Tax Due From Winners of the Prizes and to Pay the Amount So Deducted to the Collector of Internal Revenue.
- Commonwealth Act No. 379 An Act Requiring the Branding and Registration of Large Animals Imported Into the Philippines and Prescribing Penalties for the VIolation of the Same.
- Commonwealth Act No. 378 An Act Authorizing the President of the Philippines to Enter Into Negotiations With Owners of Landed Estates in the Philippines for the Purpose of Leasing Such Estates and to Sublet the Same to Bona Fide Occupants or Qualified Persons, Appropriating Funds therefor.
- Commonwealth Act No. 377 An Act to Amend Conmmonwealth Act Numbered Sixty-Seven Entitled "An Act Making Appropriations for Public Works", as Amended By Commonwealth Act Numbered three Hundred Twenty-Eight.
- Commonwealth Act No. 376 An Act to Amend Item 11, Under the Subheading "IV-Special and General Purposes", Heading "B-Office of the President", of Commonwealth Act Numbered three Hundred, Known as the General Appropriation Act for Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Nine, So as to Make the Appropriation Authorized in Said Item Available for Expenditure Beginning on the Date of the Approval of Said General Appropriation Act.
- Commonwealth Act No. 375 An Act to Amend Section One of Commonwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred and Forty-One, Entitled "An Act to Appropriate Five Million Pesos to Be Distributed By the Secretary of Finance Among the Provinces, Subprovinces, Chartered Cities, Municipalities, and Municipal Districts on the Basis of the Yearly Average of their Shares in the Proceeds of the Cedula Tax Collected During the Years Nineteen Hundred and thirty-three, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Four, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Five, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Six, and Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Seven, to Compensate the Said Branches of the Government for the Loss From their Revenues on Account of the Abolition of the Cedula Tax."
- Commonwealth Act No. 374 An Act to Amend Paragraph (4), General Provisions, Section Seven of Commonwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred and Forty-Six, Entitled "An Act Prescribing the Form of the Budget and Regulating the Expenditure of Authorized Appropriations."
- Commonwealth Act No. 373 An Act Changing the Official Fiscal Year From the Period January First to December thirty-First of the Calendar Year to the Period From July First of Each Calendar Year to June thirtieth of the Calendar Year Immediately Following.
- Commonwealth Act No. 372 An Act to Amend Section three 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."
- Commonwealth Act No. 371 An Act Granting Compensation to the Widow or Legitimate Children Under Twenty-One Years of Age of the Late Lieutenant-Colonel James B. Ord of the United states Army.
- Commonwealth Act No. 370 An Act to Consider the Late Pedro Ma. Sison of Pangasinan, Judge of First Instance, Retired, and to Provide for the Payment of a Gratuity to His Widow.
- Commonwealth Act No. 369 An Act to Appropriate Four Million Eight Hundred thousand Pesos From the Excise Tax Received From the Government of the United states to Reimburse the Amount Appropriated Under Act Numbered thirty-Nine Hundred and thirty-Two From Funds Under Act Numbered Twenty-Nine Hundred and Forty for the Construction of Irrigation Systems.
- Commonwealth Act No. 368 An Act to Provide for a Revolving Fun for Laborers' Tenement Houses.
- Commonwealth Act No. 367 An Act Transferring the National Library From the National Assembly to the Department of Public Instruction, and for Other Purposes.
- Commonwealth Act No. 366 An Act to Amend Paragraph (E) of Section Twenty-Five Hundred Sixty of the Administrative Code.
- Commonwealth Act No. 365 An Act to Amend Sections One and Twelve of Act Numbered thirty-Eight Hundred and Forty-Six Requiring a License for the Establishment And/Or Operation of Radio Receiving stations Used for Commercial Purpose.
- Commonwealth Act No. 364 An Act to Repeal Section three of Act Numbered three thousand three Hundred Fifty-Two, as Amended' By Section Two of Act Numbered Four thousand Two Hundred Sixty-One of the Philippine Legislature, Known as the City LowLand Improvement Act.
- Commonwealth Act No. 363 An Act Authorizing the White Cross, Inc. to Hold Horse Races, With Betting, for Charitable and Civic Purposes and to Promote Horse Breeding in the Philippines.