The second paragraph of section 1 of Executive Order No. 244 dated December 31, 1939, is hereby amended to read as follows:

œPursuant to the provisions of Section 1(g) of Commonwealth Act No. 402 and for the purposes of this Order, the positions of advisers, those of administrative, financial, foreign relations, protocol and other technical assistants, and of private secretaries in the Office of the President of the Philippines and of all other officers and employees whose appointments are by law vested in the President alone or with the consent of the Commission on Appointments of the National Assembly, other than those already covered by Section 5 of the aforecited Act; one private secretary and one assistant private secretary to the Vice President of the Philippines, and those, to the several Heads of Departments; one private secretary to each Justice of the Supreme Court; and secret or confidential agents in the several departments and offices of the Government are, unless otherwise directed by the President, hereby declared as primarily confidential: Provided, That if within the established schedules the salaries of the officers and employees mentioned in this paragraph should conform to the rates prescribed in Section 3 of Commonwealth Act No. 402. 

Done at the City of Manila, this 4th day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the fifth.


By the President:

(Sgd.) JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President