[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 199, April 04, 1939 ]

FIXING THE MAXIMUM WEIGHT OF BAGGAGE AND HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS OF GOVERNMENT OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES WHEN TRANSFERRED BY COMPETENT AUTHORITY FROM ONE STATION TO ANOTHER, INCLUDING THOSE OF THE MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILIES, THAT MAY BE TRANSPORTED AT GOVERNMENT EXPENSE



In order to have an effective control of the expenses payable by the Government under the provisions of section seven-I-(20) of Commonwealth Act Numbered Two hundred forty-six, known as the Budget Act, an Officer or employee of the Government when transferred by competent authority from one permanent station to another shall be allowed to have transported at Government expense his baggage and household effects and those of his wife or her husband and children below twenty-one years of age, not to exceed a total of three thousand kilos. In exceptional cases, however, the excess, if any, of three thousand kilos may also be allowed upon specific approval of the President.

Officers or employees traveling from one point to another on official business in the course of their duties or temporarily assigned to duty in another than a permanent station, shall be allowed to have transported at Government expense only such amount of personal baggage, as trunks, wearing apparel, instruments, papers, and books, as may be considered necessary in the performance of his official duties, not to exceed a total of five hundred kilos.

Executive Order Numbered Thirty-two, series of nineteen hundred and fifteen, is hereby repealed.

Done at the City of Manila, this fourth day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the fourth.

MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines

By the President:

JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President