For the purpose of fixing the responsibility for the proper administration, operation, and maintenance of ports, and upon the recommendation of the National Transportation Board created by Executive Order Numbered Forty-five, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, do hereby establish the following classification of ports:

1. National ports.-National ports shall comprise all ports primarily of importance to foreign, interisland, and inter-provincial commerce. Other ports which, on account of their geographical locations, are necessary for enforcing customs regulations or for national defense, may also be classified as national ports. The improvement and maintenance of national ports shall be financed by the Commonwealth Government, and their administration and operation shall be under the direct supervision and control of the Insular Collector of Customs.
2. Pursuant to the above classification and the provisions of section one thousand one hundred forty-five of the Revised Administrative Code and Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred seventy-five, the following ports are hereby designated as national ports:

Provinces	Ports
Albay	(1)    Legaspi
Do	(2)    Tabaco
Cagayan	(3)    Aparri
Camarines Norte	(4)    Jose Pa ganiban (formerly Mambulao
Cebu	(5)    Cebu
Davao	(6)    Davao
Iloilo	(7)    Iloilo
Manila	(8)    Manila
Occidental Negros	(9)    Pulupandan
Sulu	(10) Jolo
Tayabas	(11) Hondagua
Zamboanga	(12) Zamboanga

II. PORTS OPEN TO COASTWISE TRADE ONLY:

Agusan	(1)   Nasipit
Albay	(2)   Virac (Catanduanes)
Antique	(3)   San Jose de Buenavista
Bataan	(4)   Mariveles
Batanes	(5)   Basco
Do	(6)   Contra Costa
Batangas	(7)   Batangas
Do	(8)   Nasugbu
Bohol	(9)   Tagbilaran
Capiz	(10)  Capiz
Do	(11)  New Washington
Cebu	(12)  Toledo
Cotabato	(13)  Makar
Do	(14)  Parang
Do	(15)  Glan (Sarangani Bay)
Davao	(16)  Mati
Ilocos Norte	(17)  Currimao (Ga-an Bay)
Ilocos Sur	(18)  San Ildefonso
Do	(19)  Solvec
Lanao	(20)  Iligan
La Union	(21)  San Fernando
Leyte	(22)  Maasin
Do	(23)  Ormoc
Do	(24)  Tacloban
Marinduque	(25)  Santa Cruz
Masbate	(26)  Masbate
Do	(27)  San Pascual (Burias Island)
Mindoro	(28)  Calapan
Do	(29)  Mangarin
Occidental Misamis	(30)  Jimenez
Oriental Misamis	(31)  Cagayan
Occidental Negros	(32)  San Carlos
Oriental Negros	(33)  Dumaguete
Do	(34)  Larena (Siquijor)
Palawan	(35)  Balabac
Do	(36)  Culion
Do	(37)  Puerto Princesa
Romblon	(38)  Romblon
Samar	(39)  Borongan
Do	(40)  Carangian
Do	(41)  Catbalogan
Sorsogon	(42)  Bulan
Do	(43)  Gubat
Sulu	(44)  Cagayan de Sulu
Do	(45)  Sitankai
Surigao	(46)  Surigao
Zambales	(47)  Masinloc
Do	(48)  Subic
Zamboanga	(49)  Puluan

3. Municipal ports.-Municipal ports shall comprise all other ports not classified as national ports. The administration and operation of municipal ports shall be under the municipal councils concerned, subject to the general regulations that may be issued by the Insular Collector of Customs, pursuant to the provisions of Chapter Thirty-nine of the Administrative Code. The maintenance and improvement of these ports shall be financed by the municipalities concerned and from appropriations authorized by the Commonwealth Government and such work shall be carried out with the advice and under the general supervision of the Director of Public Works.

4. Any municipal port may hereafter be declared a national port or any national port declared a municipal port, when it is considered necessary to do so in the interest of commerce, for the enforcement of customs regulations, or for national defense purposes.
This Order shall take effect on January first, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven.

Done at the City of Manila, this third day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the second.


By the President:

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
Secretary of the Interior