WYEREAS, the Code Commission created by Executive Order No. 48, dated March 20, 1947, has already finished the new Civil Code, which will soon take effect, and the draft of the Code of Crimes, which has been recently submitted to the Congress;

WHEREAS, the Code Commission has still to undertake the task of revising the Code of Commerce and compiling other statutes than those found in the codes;

WHEREAS, the Code Commission has been requested by the Senate Committee on Codes to submit its observations on many proposed amendments to the new Civil Code; and

WHEREAS, the Code Commission must appear at the public hearings to be held jointly by the corresponding committees of both Houses of Congress to present the reasons for the proposed Code of Crimes;

NOW, THEREFORE I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested by Republic Act No. 422, do hereby extend the term of the Code Commission for one year beginning July 1, 1950.

Done in the City of Manila, this 17th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fourth.


By the President:
(SGD.) TEODORO EVANGELISTA
Executive Secretary