WHEREAS, section 6 of Republic Act No. 17, approved September 25, 1946, provides that Treasury certificates not marked as therein provided shall, after November 30, 1946, not be legal tender for the purposes of section 1612 of the Revised Administrative Code;

WHEREAS, due to lack of time and adequate facilities which rendered it materially impossible to comply with the requirements of Republic Act No. 17 the periods provided for in section 3, 5, and 6 thereof was extended for a period of one month under Executive Order No.30. dated November 26, 1946 ;

WHEREAS, it is necessary in the public interest to extend further the periods provided for in sections 3, 5, and 6 of said Act;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Manuel Roxas, President of the Philippines , by virtue of the powers vested in me by section 7 of the Republic Act No. 17, do hereby further extend for a period of one month the periods provided for in sections 3, 5, and 6 of Republic Act No. 17.

Done at the City of Manila , this 23rd day of December, 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