The public interest so demanding, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the power in me vested by Commonwealth Acts Numbered Four hundred fifty-three and Five hundred one, do ordain and promulgate the following:


1. The Bureau of Labor is hereby abolished arid all its functions arid activities are transferred to the Department of Labor which shall hereafter perform the same directly.

2. The personnel of the Bureau of Labor, together with its appropriations, equipment, properties and records are likewise transferred to the Department of Labor.


3. The Department of Labor shall have the following administrative units and positions in lieu of those provided in Commonwealth Act Numbered Four hundred forty-six;

See Table in MOP, Bk 3, v.4, 124

Provided, however, That the rates of compensation herein given shall be subject to adjustments in accordance with the classification and allocation of positions that may be made by the Salary Board.

The appropriation of P100,000 authorized by Commonwealth Act No. 501 is hereby allotted for the following purposes:

(1)	For adjustment of the salaries of the personnel of the Department of Labor as specified in paragraph (8) hereof	P96,240.00
(2)	For sundry expenses and purchase of equipment	3,760.00
		P100,000.00

        
Done at the City of Manila, this thirty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and of the Commonwealth of Philippines, the fifth.


By the President:

JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President