Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications, and the public interest so requiring, I, MANUEL L. QUEZON, President of the Philippines, acting under and by virtue of the powers vested in me by Commonwealth Act No. 620, do hereby order that messages concerning weather conditions and those relating to the enforcement of the neutrality laws and regulations of the United States intended for or which may be filed by the United States Army and Navy in the Philippines, the Philippine Army; and the Philippine Constabulary; weather messages and all other messages in connection therewith which may be filed by the weather Bureau and its weather observers, including those addressed to provincial governors and the Bureau of Aeronautics, shall be transmitted free of charge over all government electrical communication systems during the existence of the present emergency.

This Order shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 20th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-one, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the sixth.


By the President:

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