Paragraph (2) of Executive Order Numbered One hundred sixty-one, dated August twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, is hereby amended to read as follows:

œ(2) Landowners delinquent in the payment of irrigation charges for all years prior to nineteen hundred and thirty-seven shall be allowed until December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, to pay in full such charges without penalty, or they may be granted a period of ten years from September first, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, within which they shall pay unpaid charges including the penalties and expenses of publication. In the latter case, payments shall be made in ten equal installments, payable at the same time as the regular annual irrigation charges and to be collected in the same manner as said annual charges are collected. Any landowner who after paying one or more installment desires to pay in full the remaining delinquent charges, may do so without being required to pay the corresponding penalties thereon. The benefits of these provisions shall be extended only to those landowners who shall have paid their irrigation charges for the year nineteen hundred and thirty-seven on or before December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight. 

Done at the City of Manila, this eighteenth day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the third.


By the President:

JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President