Paragraph 2 of section 5-a of Chapter III of Executive Order No. 178, dated December 17, 1938, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Under the authority of A. W-8, the commanding officer of an army, an army corps, a division, or a separate brigade, the Provost Marshal General, and the Superintendent of the Military Academy (except for the trial of an officer) are hereby empowered to appoint general courts-martial."

Paragraph 2 of section 5-b of Chapter III of the aforesaid Executive Order is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Under the authority of A. W.-9, the commanding officer of a military district, a brigade, regiment, detached battalion and other detached command as well as the commanding officers of all garrisons, forts, and camps directly under Army Headquarters are hereby empowered to appoint special courts-martial."

Done at the City of Manila, Philippines, this 6th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-five, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the tenth.


By the President:
(Sgd.) JOSE S. REYES
Secretary to the President