May 1939

26commonwealth acts
  1. 01CA 440An Act to Designate the Register of Deeds of Provinces Whose Capitals Have Been Converted into Cities, as City Register of Deeds Ex-Officio Thereof, with Additional Compensation.
  2. 02CA 439An Act to Amend Commonwealth Act Numbered Three Hundred and Fifty by Extending the Period for Filing Applications Thereunder.
  3. 03CA 438An Act to Amend Subsection (M) of Section Two 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.
  4. 04CA 437An Act Prohibiting the Investment of Any Fund of a Corporation or in Any Business Other Than That for Which It Was Organized Unless Certain Requirements Are Fulfilled-Amending for That Purpose the Corporation Law as Amended.
  5. 05CA 436An Act to Amend Sections One 1and Three of Commonwealth Act Numbered Three Hundred and Four, Entitled an Act to Provide for the Reforestation Afforestation of Water Sheds, Denuded Areas and Cogon or Open Lands Within Forest Reserves, Communal Forests,. National Parks and Timberlands, Sand Dunes, and Other Public Forest Lands, in the Philippines. and Providing the Necessary Funds Therefor."
  6. 06CA 435An Act to Add Another Subsection to Section Seven of Commonwealth Act Numbered Two Hundred and Forty-Six Commonly Known as the "Budget Act", Providing for the Temporary Employment of Substitute Officers or Members of the Crew of Government Vessels.
  7. 07CA 434An Act Vesting in the Treasurer of the Philippines Certain Powers Over Trusts.for Charitable Uses and:appropriating the Necessary.funds to Carry Out the Purposes Thereof.
  8. 08CA 433An Act to Suspend the Granting of Geological Exploration and Petroleum Drilling Leases Under Act Numbered Twenty-Nine Hundred and Thirty-Two.
  9. 09CA 432An Act to Amend Section Sixty-Two of General Orders Numbered Fifty-Eight, Known as the Code of Criminal Procedure, Providing for the Taking of Depositions or Written Sworn Statements of Material Witnesses Who Have to Leave the Philippines with No Definite Date of Returning Thereto and Their Admission as Evidence in the Trial of a Case, Under Certain Conditions.
  10. 10CA 431An Act to Give the Board on Documents Discretionary Power to Delegate to Its Duly Authorized Representatives Its Authority to Witness the Burning of Condemned Records.
  11. 11CA 430An Act to Create the Department of National Defense and the Department of Health and Public Welfare.
  12. 12CA 429An Act to Authorize the President of the Philippines to Negotiate with the President of the United States Regarding the Assignment of Filipinos to United States Embassies or Consulates in Foreign Countries, Appropriating Funds Therefor.
  13. 13CA 428An Act Authorizing the City of Bacolod to Issue Bonds for the Purpose of Providing Funds to Construct a City Hall, the Necessary Sewer Facilities and Other Permanent Improvements in Said City, and Authorizing Also a National Government Bond Issue Secured by Said City Bonds.
  14. 14CA 427An Act Relieving All Provinces, Municipalities and Municipal Districts and the Cities of Zamboanga and Davao from the Payment of Sheriff Fees.
  15. 15CA 426An Act to Amend Section Sixty-Two of Commonwealth Act Numbered Fifty-Seven as Amended by Commonwealth Act Numbered One Fifty-Eight.
  16. 16CA 425An Act Modifying the Manner, Form and Amount of the Bond, of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, Amending for This Purpose, Section One Hundred Forty-Five-M of the Administrative Code, as Amended by Commonwealth Acts Numbered Three and Two Hundred-and Fifty-Nine.
  17. 17CA 424An Act to Designate District Engineers of Provinces Whose Capitals Have Been Converted into Cities, City Engineers Ex Officio with Additional Compensation, Placing All City Engineers, Including That of the City of Manila,. Under the Supervision and Control of the Director of Public Works, Fixing the Salary of the City Engineer of Manila, and Providing for the Appointment of Assistant Engineers, Superintendents, and Other Employees of Chartered Cities.
  18. 18CA 423An Act Providing for the Execution of Public Works or Public Improvements in Chartered Cities.
  19. 19CA 422An Act Exempting Municipalities and Municipal Districts from the Payment of Docket Fees for Criminal Gases, Including Violations of Municipal Ordinances, in Justice of the Peace Courts.
  20. 20CA 421An Act to Amend Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred and Eight Entitled "an Act to Punish Acts of Evasion of the Laws on the Nationalization of Certain Rights, Franchises or Privileges: "
  21. 21CA 420An Act to Authorize the Conversion in to a Corporation of the Instrumentality or Agency in Charge of Subleasing Lamed Estates Acquired Through Lease or Purchase Under Commonwealth Act Numbered Three Hundred and Seventy-Eight
  22. 22CA 419An Act to Exempt All Cases of Summary Settlement of Estates of Deceased Persons and Guardianship Proceedings in Which the Gross Value of the Estate Involved Do Not Exceed Three Hundred Pesos, from the Payment of Filing Fees and Other Expenses.
  23. 23CA 418An Act Appropriating the Amount of Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pesos, Out of the Oil Excise Tax Funds in the National Treasury Not Otherwise Appropriated, to Be Used Fob Hastening the Agronomical Survey of the Philippines.
  24. 24CA 417An Act Increasing the Penalty for Robbery or Theft of Mail Matter, by Amending Articles Three Hundred Two, and Three Hundred Ten, as Amended, of the Revised Penal Code.
  25. 25CA 416An Act Appropriating the Sum of Two Million Seven. Hundred Forty Thousand Pesos to Be Reimbursed to the Department of the Interior and the Local Governments for the Expenses Borne by Them Fob the Second Regular Election of Members.of the National Assembly, and to Cover the Un-Paid Expenses for the Plebiscite on Woman Suffrage in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Seven.
  26. 26CA 415An Act to-Appropriate Two Million Nine Hundred Seventy-Five Thousand Pesos to Compensate the Provinces, Subprovinces, Quartered Cities, Municipalities, and Municipal Districts for the Loss in Revenue on Account of the Abolition of the Cedula Tax.