Whereas attention has been invited to the fact that several justices of the peace retired under Commonwealth Act Numbered Three hundred thirty-one have been reappointed to positions in the local governments without having been required to waive their retirement gratuities under the Act; and

Whereas, although the provision of said Act regarding automatic waiving of gratuity payments before acceptance of reappointment refers only to reappointments in the National Government, it has never been contemplated that any reappointed employee be allowed to receive gratuity in addition to his salary in the Government, the purpose of the law in giving gratuity being to help the retired employee while in private life;

Now, therefore, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order that no justice of the peace retired under Commonwealth Act Numbered Three hundred thirty-one be reappointed to any position in the local governments during the period covered by his retirement, unless he waive his retirement gratuity.

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


By the President:

JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President