For the purpose of a more convenient, punctual, and regular dispatch of the public business, it is hereby directed that all communications in writing intended for the Executive Department of this Government and relating to public business of whatever kind, including suggestions for legislation, claims, contracts, employment, appointments and removals from office, and pardons, be transmitted directly in the first instance, to the Head of the Department to which the care of the subject-matter of the communications properly belongs.

Done at the City of Manila, this twenty-third day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the fourth.


By the President:

JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President