Paragraphs (8) and (9) of Executive Order Numbered One hundred sixty-one, dated August twenty-three, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, are hereby amended to read as follows:

œ(8) The irrigation fees to be paid, beginning with those for the year 1946, by landowners under irrigation systems constructed under the provisions of Act No. 2152, as amended, and operated and maintained by the Director of Public Works, with the exception of the San Miguel Irrigation System in Tarlac Province, shall consist of the following items:

œ(a) Actual cost of operation and maintenance including equipment, with interest of four per cent.

œ(b) An insurance charge at the rate of fifty centavos per hectare.

œ(c) An additional charge to be applied on the cost of construction, provided that the total annual charge under (a), (b) and (c) hereof, for land under any system shall be twelve pesos per hectare. 

œ(9) The irrigation fees as fixed under paragraph (8) for any year shall be due and payable on or before April thirty of the following year, after which date the penalty shall be ten per cent additional to December thirty-one, and twenty per cent thereafter as prescribed by existing law. Landowners delinquent in the payment of said irrigation fees for one year or longer shall be subject to court action for the collection of the same as provided in section thirteen of Act Numbered Two Thousand one hundred and fifty-two, as amended. 

Done at the City of Manila, this 22nd day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-six, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the first.

 

	(Sgd.) MANUEL ROXAS
	President of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) EMILIO ABELLO
Chief of the Executive Office