Proclamation No. 650




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ Proclamation No. 650, December 4, 1940 ] GIVING PUBLIC NOTICE OF THE APPROVAL BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF THE AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE PHILIPPINES, AS CONTAINED IN RESOLUTION NO. 73 OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, DATED APRIL 11, 1940. For the information and guidance of all concerned, I, MANUEL L. QUEZON, President of the Philippines, do hereby give public notice of the approval by the President of the United States on December 2nd, 1940, of the amendments to the constitution of the Philippines, as contained in Resolution No. 73 of the National Assembly, dated April 11, 1940, entitled “Resolution Amending Resolution Numbered Thirty-eight, approved September fifteenth, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, entitled ‘Resolution proposing amendments to Articles III, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, and XVII of the Constitution of the Philippines, and to the ordinance appended thereto; and the adoption of two new articles, one establishing a Commission on Elections, the fixing the effective date of said amendments and adopting certain transitory provisions. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand. and caused the seal of the Commonwealth of the Philippines to be affixed.1aшphi1 Done at the City of Manila, this fourth day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the sixth. MANUEL L. QUEZON President of the Philippines By the President: JORGE B. VARGAS Secretary to the President The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation