By virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution and existing laws, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, do hereby order that:

The Board of Indeterminate Sentence, created under Act Numbered Forty-one hundred and three, as amended, shall, in addition to its other duties, look into the records of military prisoners confined in penitentiaries who are sentenced to indeterminate terms of imprisonment in order to determine the proper time of their release on parole, recommend to me the release on parole of such prisoners when such proper time shall have come, exercise supervision over them when released on parole, and determine when final release and discharge may be granted to them.

Done at the City of Manila, this eighth day of November, 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