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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 654, December 17, 1940 ]

GIVING PUBLIC NOTICE OF THE APPROVAL BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF BILL NO. 3927 (COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 406).

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 6, 1940, of Bill No. 3927 (Commonwealth Act No. 406), entitled “An Act amending section twelve hundred and ninety of the Administrative Code so as to give Collectors of Customs discretionary power to impose surcharges,” as provided in section 2, subsection (a), paragraph 9, of the Act of Congress of March 24, 1934, as amended.

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 seventeenth 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

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