WHEREAS, the National Assembly has by resolution adopted August tenth, nineteen hundred and thirty-six.

œResolved, That it is the sense of the National Assembly that those employees of the Government who are now in the unclassified list and are required by Executive Order Numbered Eight to qualify in the Civil Service within one year from the first examination to be held, should be given another year, during which to qualify, after the expiration of the one-year period provided for in said Executive Order; and that, during the period provided herein, and in Executive Order Numbered Eight, the employees concerned shall be given an opportunity to take the examinations three times, 

Now, therefore, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested by law, amend, as I hereby do amend that portion of Executive Order Numbered Eight, current series, by extending the period therein provided within which to qualify in Civil Service examination one more year, within which total combined period the employees concerned shall be given an opportunity to take the examination three times.

Done at the City of Manila, this ninth day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the first.


By the President:

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
Secretary of the Interior