Executive Order Numbered Forty-nine, series of nineteen hundred and thirty-six, is hereby amended to read as follows:

œIn order to establish a more equitable and uniform schedule of wages for common laborers employed by the different branches of the National Government based on the prevailing living conditions in the different provinces and chartered cities, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested by law, hereby fix the minimum daily wage to be paid to able-bodied common laborers employed by, or under the direct supervision of the different branches of the National Government, at not less than one hundred twenty per centum of the present basic minimum daily wages paid to said laborers as shown by the records of the Bureau of Public Works.

œThe Secretary of Public Works and Communications and the Secretary of Labor are hereby directed to prepare as soon as practicable an official schedule of the minimum daily wages to be paid as prescribed in this Executive Order: Provided, That the minimum daily wage to be paid to common laborers employed by the National Government shall not be less than one peso and twenty-five centavos in the City of Manila and one peso in the different provinces and chartered cities, the same to become effective on August nineteenth, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven.

œIn those cases where laborers are employed on work located in isolated or unsettled districts, they shall be furnished the usual rations at the expense of the Government, or paid an additional wage or not to exceed fifteen centavos per day in lieu thereof. They may also furnished at the expense of the Government, chargeable to projects concerned, quinine and other first aid medicines. 

Done at the City of Manila, this sixteenth day of August, 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