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Commonwealth Acts
733 acts · 1935–1946
101 acts in 1940
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- Commonwealth Act No. 563 An Act to Amend Commonwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred Forty Entitled "An Act Appropriating the Sum of Five Million Fifty thousand Pesos for Elementary School Buildings".
- Commonwealth Act No. 562 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."
- Commonwealth Act No. 561 An Act to Create a Department of Health and Welfare in the City of Manila, to Define Its Powers and Duties Amending for this Purpose. Certain Sections of Chapter Sixty of the Administrative Code.
- Commonwealth Act No. 560 An Act to Provide Security Against Fraud in the Kind of Sawn Lumber Offered for Sale.
- Commonwealth Act No. 559 An Act to Amend Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred and three, as Amended.
- Commonwealth Act No. 558 An Act to Amend Sections One and Two of Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred and Fifty. Entitled An Act to Provide for the Payment of Longevity Pay to Commissioned Officers of the Army of the United states Joining the Army of the Philippines and to Include Service in the Army of the United states And/Or in the United states Military or Naval Academy in Determining the Pay and Rights of Retirement of Commissioned Officers in the Army of the Philippines."
- Commonwealth Act No. 557 An Act to Amend Section Four of Commonwealth Act Numbered Four Hunched and Sixty-Five, Otherwise Known as the Residence Tax Law.
- Commonwealth Act No. 556 An Act to Amend Act Numbered thirty-Nine Hundred and Ninety-Two, Known as "the Revised Motor Vehicle Law, "As Amended.
- Commonwealth Act No. 555 An Act Appropriating Funds for the Operation of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines During the Fiscal Year Ending June thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Forty-One.
- 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.