Pursuant to the provisions of section five hundred and sixty-four of the Administrative Code of nineteen hundred and seventeen, the office hours of all Government Bureau and offices, including the provincial and municipal governments and the cities of Manila, Cebu, Davao, and Zamboanga, during the period from April first to June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, both dates inclusive, are hereby reduced to five and one-half continuous hours which shall be from seven thirty a. m. to one p.m. All offices in the City of Baguio, insular, provincial, and 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 Washington, D. C. (for the City of Manila), this twenty-ninth day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the second.


By the President:

(Sgd.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO
Secretary of the Interior