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1937

22 acts in 1937

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  1. Dec 21, 1937 Commonwealth Act No. 252 An Act Authorizing His Excellency, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, to Accept the Decoration Known as the "Order of the Brilliant Jade", Conferred Upon Him By the National Government of the Republic of China.
  2. Dec 17, 1937 Commonwealth Act No. 251 An Act to Amend Section Fourteen Hundred and Seventy-three of the Administrative Code, as Amended By Commonwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred and Fifteen.
  3. Dec 17, 1937 Commonwealth Act No. 250 An Act Amending Sections Twenty-Seven and Twenty-Eight, and the First Paragraph of Section Twenty-Nine of the Charter of the City of Zamboanga, So as to Authorize the Payment in Two Installments of the Taxed on Real Estate in the Said City, Placing the Additional Tax as Penalty At Two Per Centum for Each Full Month of Delinquency Due on the Amount of the Original Tax Due, and to Permit Remission of Such Taxes.
  4. Dec 17, 1937 Commonwealth Act No. 249 An Act Amending the Administrative Code So as to Transfer to the Secretary of the Interior the Authority to Approve Changes in the Names Provided By Municipal Councils for streets, Avenues, and Other Public Places.
  5. Dec 17, 1937 Commonwealth Act No. 248 An Act Extending to Officers and Employees Retired Under the Provisions of Art Numbered Twenty-Fire Hundred and Eighty-Nine the Privileges Granted By Commonwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred and Six to Officers and Employees Retired Under Act Numbered Four thousand and Fifty-One.
  6. Dec 17, 1937 Commonwealth Act No. 247 An Act to Make the Provisions of Section Two thousand and Ninety-Seven of the Administrative Code Applicable to the Provincial Boards of Abra, Camarines Norte, Marinduque, Masbate and Romblon, and Repealing the Second Paragraph of the Said Section.
  1. Dec 17, 1937 Commonwealth Act No. 246 An Act Prescribing the Form of the Budget and Regulating the Expenditure of Authorized Ap­Propriations.
  2. Dec 17, 1937 Commonwealth Act No. 245 An Act Appropriating Funds for the Operation of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines During the Fiscal Year Ending Dec­Ember thirty-First, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Eight.
  3. Dec 10, 1937 Commonwealth Act No. 244 An Act Setting the Fourth Monday of January of Each Year as the Day for the Opening of the Regular Session of the National Assembly.
  4. Dec 10, 1937 Commonwealth Act No. 243 An Act to Amend Sections Fourteen Hundred and Fifty-Seven and Fourteen Hundred and Fifty-Nine of the Administrative Code, as Amended By the Commonwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred and Fifteen.
  5. Dec 9, 1937 Commonwealth Act No. 242 An Act Providing for An Annual Grant of One Million Pesos From the National Government to the City of Manila.
  6. Dec 9, 1937 Commonwealth Act No. 241 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 Hunched 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.
  7. Dec 8, 1937 Commonwealth Act No. 240 An Act Appropriating the Sum of Five Million Fifty thousand Pesos for Elementary School Buildings.
  8. Nov 29, 1937 Commonwealth Act No. 239 An Act to Appropriate the Sum of Five Hundred thousand Pesos for the Relief of Communities and Indigent Sufferers From Typhoons, Floods, or Other Public Calamities.
  9. Nov 15, 1937 Commonwealth Act No. 238 An Act Providing for the Abolition of the Cedula Tax.
  10. Sep 23, 1937 Commonwealth Act No. 237 An Act to Provide for the Restoration and Payment of All Annuities Due to Persons Retired Under and Pursuant to the Terms and Provisions of Acts Numbered thirty Hundred and Fifty, thirty-One Hundred and Seventy-three, and Article IIi of Chapter thirty-Five of the Administrative Code, Each as Amended and in Effect Prior to November First, Nineteen Hundred and thirty-Six.
  11. Sep 16, 1937 Commonwealth Act No. 236 An Act Authorizing the President of the Philippines to Designate Any Department, Bureau, Office or Instrumentality of the National Government, or to Create a New Office or Agency for the Purpose of Making Allotments of Any Quota Established for the Philippines Pursuant to the Provisions of the United states Sugar Act of Nineteen Hundred thirty-Seven, on the Basis Specified in Section Six (D) of Public Law Numbered One Hundred and Twenty-Seven, Approved March Twenty-Four, Nineteen Hundred thirty-Four, and of Enforcing Act Numbered Forty-One Hundred Sixty-Six, as Amended By Commonwealth Act Numbered Seventy-Seven, and Providing the Necessary Funds therefor.
  12. Sep 16, 1937 Commonwealth Act No. 235 An Act to Amend Article One Hundred and Ninety-Five of the Revised Penal Code.
  13. Sep 15, 1937 Commonwealth Act No. 234 An Act Appropriating the Sum of One Million Two Hundred thousand Pesos as Aid for the Establishment and Maintenance of New Elementary Classes.
  14. Sep 15, 1937 Commonwealth Act No. 233 An Act to Provide for the Holding of Elections of Provincial, City, and Municipal Officers and Amend for Said Purpose Certain Sections of the Administrative Code on Elections and Kindred Matters.
  15. Mar 9, 1937 Commonwealth Act No. 232 An Act Amending Further Section Fourteen of the Philippine Tariff Act of Nineteen Hundred and Nine, as Amended, So as to Exempt Natural Rock Asphalt From the Payment of Wharfage Charges.
  16. Mar 9, 1937 Commonwealth Act No. 231 An Act to Amend Paragraph Two Hundred and Sixty-Nine of Section Eight of the Act Entitled "An Act to Raise Revenue for the Philippine Islands, and for Other Purposes," Approved By the Congress of the United states on August Fifth, Nineteen Hundred and Nine, as Amended.