The public interest so requiring, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by section fifty-three of Commonwealth Act Numbered Four hundred and seventy, section twenty-seven of Commonwealth Act numbered Fifty-one, as amended by Commonwealth Act Numbered Four hundred and sixty-two, and section twenty-seven of Commonwealth Act Numbered Thirty-nine, as amended by Commonwealth Act Numbered Two hundred and fifty, do hereby reduce by thirty per centum the real property tax due on all permanent plants and/or trees on any taxable real property in all the provinces and the cities of Davao and Zamboanga for the calendar year nineteen hundred and forty-one.

This Order shall take effect as of January first, nineteen hundred and forty-one.

Done at the City of Manila, this seventh day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-one, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the sixth.

(Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines

By the President:

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