Pursuant to the provisions of section 564 of the Revised Administrative Code, the office hours of all Government Bureaus and offices, including the provincial and municipal governments and Chartered Cities, during the period from April first to June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and forty-six, both dates inclusive, are hereby reduced to five continuous hours which shall be from eight a. m. to one p. m. All offices in the City of Baguio, whether national, provincial, or municipal, are exempted from the provisions of this Executive Order.

This Order does not oblige the Head of any Department, Bureau, or office so to reduce the hours of labor in his branch of work, but leaves the same in his discretion subject to the requirements of the service.

Done at the City of Manila, this 20th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-six, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the eleventh.


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