August 1938

37commonwealth acts
  1. 01CA 381An Act Providing for the Support of Primary and Intermediate Education and for Other Purposes.
  2. 02CA 380An 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.
  3. 03CA 379An Act Requiring the Branding and Registration of Large Animals Imported into the Philippines and Prescribing Penalties for the Violation of the Same.
  4. 04CA 378An 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.
  5. 05CA 377An 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.
  6. 06CA 376An 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.
  7. 07CA 375An 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."
  8. 08CA 374An 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."
  9. 09CA 373An 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.
  10. 10CA 372An 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."
  11. 11CA 371An 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.
  12. 12CA 370An 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.
  13. 13CA 369An 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.
  14. 14CA 368An Act to Provide for a Revolving Fun for Laborers' Tenement Houses.
  15. 15CA 367An Act Transferring the National Library from the National Assembly to the Department of Public Instruction, and for Other Purposes.
  16. 16CA 366An Act to Amend Paragraph (E) of Section Twenty-Five Hundred Sixty of the Administrative Code.
  17. 17CA 365An 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.
  18. 18CA 364An 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 Low�land Improvement Act.
  19. 19CA 363An 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.
  20. 20CA 362An Act to Amend Section Nineteen Hundred and Seventeen of the Administrative Code.
  21. 21CA 361An Act to Amend Sections Twenty-Four Hundred and Sixty-Six and Twenty-Four Hundred and Sixty-Eight of the Administrative Code.
  22. 22CA 360An Act to Amend Further Section One of Act Numbered Thirty-Five Hundred and Ninety-Seven, as Amended.
  23. 23CA 359An Act to Amend Sections One, Two, Three, Four and Six of Commonwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred and Eighty-Eight, Entitled "an Act to Provide Pension for Veterans of the Philippine Revolutions or Wars."
  24. 24CA 358An Act to Authorize in Certain Cases the Taking Over and Operation by the Government of Public Utilities or Businesses Coupled with a Public Interest; to Appropriate Funds for Such Purpose; and to Prescribe Penalties for Interfering with the Exercise by the Government of Its Authority Under the Act.
  25. 25CA 357Election Code
  26. 26CA 356An Act Specifying How National Aid Could Be Obtained by Any Province for the Construction, Equipment, Maintenance and Operation of Provincial Hospitals.
  27. 27CA 355An Act to Amend Sections Six, Nineteen, and Twenty-Four of Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred and Three, Entitled, "an Act to Afford Protection of Labor by Creating' a Court of Industrial Relations Empowered to Fix Min�imum Wages for Laborers and Maximum Rentals to Be Paid by Tenants, and to Enforce Compulsory Arbitration Between Employers or Landlords, and Employees or Tenants, Respectively; and by Prescribing Penalties for the Violation of Its Orders."
  28. 28CA 354An Act Appropriating Eighty Thousand Pesos to Compensate the Mountain Province for the Loss in Its Revenue on Account of the Abolition of the Road Tax.
  29. 29CA 353An Act Authorizing and Empowering the Board of Regents of the University of the Philippines to Fix the Compensation and Salaries of Members of the Faculties, Officers, and Employees of Said Institution.
  30. 30CA 352An Act Amending Section Eighteen of Act Numbered Two Thousand Six Hundred and Twelve, Entitled, "an Act Creating the Philippine National Bank," as Amended by Acts Numbered Two Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-Eight and Thirty-Nine Hundred and Seventy-Nine.
  31. 31CA 351An Act Authorizing the President of the Philippines, in Aid of the Establishment and Operation of a Petroleum and Natural Gas Industry, to Call for Bids and Award and Execute Contracts for the Exploration, Exploitation and De�velopment of Petroleum and Natural Gas Deposits in Private and Public Lands in the Philippines, Subject in All Cases to the Ex�press Approval of the National Assembly.
  32. 32CA 350An Act Providing for the Payment of Gratuity to Provincial Fiscals and Assistant Provincial Fiscals Who Shall Retire from the Service and to Those Who Were Separated Therefrom as a Result of the Operation of the Constitution of the Philippines, Appropriating the Necessary Funds Therefor.
  33. 33CA 349An Act Creating a Standardizing Meter Laboratory to Carry Out the Provisions of the Public Service Act on Meter Testing and Providing Funds Therefor.
  34. 34CA 348An Act Amending the Administrative Code to Increase the Number of Judges and Judges-at-Large of First Instance, to Alter the Times and Places of Holding Courts in Certain Districts, and to Fix the Compensation of Judges and Judges-at-Large of First Instance, and Appropriating Therefor the Necessary Funds.
  35. 35CA 347An Act Appropriating Two and One-Half Million Pesos for the Classification, Survey, and Subdivision of Public Agricultural Lands.
  36. 36CA 346An Act Providing for an Additional Appropriation of Two Million One Hundred Thousand Pesos to Carry Out the Provisions of Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred and Seventy.
  37. 37CA 345An Act Repealing Section Six of Com�monwealth Act Numbered Three Hundred, Entitled "an Act Ap�propriating 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-Nine."