May 1940

37commonwealth acts
  1. 01CA 554An Act to Liquidate the Municipal Loan Fund, the Private Surveyors' Loan Fund, and the Friar Lands Loan Fund.
  2. 02CA 553An 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.
  3. 03CA 552An 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.
  4. 04CA 551An 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.
  5. 05CA 550An 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.
  6. 06CA 549An Act Creating .the Position of Deputy Commissioner of the Budget and Appropriating the Necessary Amount Therefor.
  7. 07CA 548An 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.
  8. 08CA 547An Act Creating the City of Cavite
  9. 09CA 546An 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.
  10. 10CA 545An 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.
  11. 11CA 544An Act to Create Eight Positions of District Attorneys, Appropriating the Necessary Funds Therefor.
  12. 12CA 543An Act to Amend Section One Thousand Six Hundred and Fifty-Nine of the Administrative Code.
  13. 13CA 542An Act to Create a Corporation to Be Known as. the Girl Scouts of the Philippines, and to Define Its Powers and Purposes.
  14. 14CA 541An Act to Regulate the Awarding of Contracts for the Construction or Repair of Public Works.
  15. 15CA 540An 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.
  16. 16CA 539An 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.
  17. 17CA 538An Act to Suspend the Effects of Any Action for Ejectment Instituted Against Tenants or Holders of Estates or Chapllaincies (Capellanias) Much the Government May Seek to Acquire Through Purchase or Expropriation Proceedings.
  18. 18CA 537An Act to Amend Section Twenty-Four Hundred and Sixty-Five of the Administrative Code, as Amended, to Standardize the Salaries of Assistant Fiscals for the City of Manila.
  19. 19CA 536An Act Authorizing the Retirement of Justices of the Supreme Court and Making-Appropriation for the Payment of a Retirement Gratuity.
  20. 20CA 535An Act to Exempt Certain Persons from the Requirement to Make a Declaration of Intention, Prior. to Filing an Application .for Naturalization, Amending Thereby Section Six of Commonwealth Act Numbered Four Hundred and Seventy-Three.
  21. 21CA 534An Act to Declare Ineffective the Reduction of the Assessed Value of All Permanent Plants and/or Trees on Any Taxable Real Property in Any Province by Fifty Per Cent Pending the New Assessment Therein, and to Repeal the Proviso Contained in the Second Paragraph of Section Fifty-Three of Commonwealth Act Numbered Four Hundred and Seventy, Known as the "Assessment Law."
  22. 22CA 533An Act to Amend Paragraph (D) of Section Twenty-Five Hundred and Fifty and Section Twenty-Five Hundred and Fifty-Two of the Administrative Code as Amended, So as to Vest the Mayor of the City of Baguio with Veto Power and the Council of Said City with Power to Override Such Veto.
  23. 23CA 532An Act to Fix the Salary of the Auditor General at Fifteen Thousand Pesos Per Annum.
  24. 24CA 531An Act Changing the Name of the Barrio of Maloconan, Municipality of Tolong, Province of Oriental Negros, to That of San Francisco.
  25. 25CA 530An Act to Change the Procedure in the Assessment of Real Property for Taxation Purposes, by Requiring the Owner to File a Sworn Statement as to the. Real Value Thereof and Creating a Central Board of Tax Appeals.
  26. 26CA 529An Act Amending Sections Three, Six, and Seven of Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred Sixty-Eight, Known as the Civil Aviation Law, and Inserting Section Six and One-Half in the Same.
  27. 27CA 528An Act to Provide for the Issue of Bonds of the Government of the Philippines the Proceeds of Sale of Which Will Be Used for the Purchase of an Equivalent Amount of Bonds of the Metropolitan, Water District.
  28. 28CA 527An Act Changing the Name of the Municipality of Bondo, Province of Tayabas, to That of-"Aurora."
  29. 29CA 526An Act to Amend Section Two Hundred and Four of the National International Revenue Code.
  30. 30CA 525An Act to Repeal Subsection (B) of Section One Hund8ed and Eighty-Four and to Amend Subsection (a) of Section One Hundred-and Eighty-Five of Commonwealth Act Numbered Four Hundred and Sixty-Six.
  31. 31CA 524An Act Amending Section One of Commonwealth Act Numbered Four Hundred and Sixty-Four, Entitled "an Act to Remit, Under Certain Conditions, Unpaid Taxes and Penalties of Forfeited Real Property," to Provide a New Time Limit for the Payment of the Taxes Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Eight and Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Nine.
  32. 32CA 523An Act to Amend Section Two Hundred and Fifty-Five of the National Internal Revenue Code.
  33. 33CA 522An Act to Amend Section One of Act Numbered Thirty-Seven Hundred and Ninety-Nine.
  34. 34CA 521An Act Appropriating Amounts from the Coconut Oil Excise Tax Fund Collected on and After January First, Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Nine, for the Period from January First, Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Nine, to June Thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Forty.
  35. 35CA 520An Act Creating the City of San Pablo
  36. 36CA 519An Act to Establish the National Tobacco Corporation
  37. 37CA 518An Act to Establish the National Coconut Corporation