EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 188, December 06, 1948

EXTENDING THE PERIOD PROVIDED IN SECTION 3 OF REPUBLIC ACT NO. 211 ENTITLED “AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE RETIREMENT AND REDEMPTION OF THE CIRCULATING NOTES LAWFULLY ISSUED BY THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK AND THE REGISTRATION AND DEPOSIT OF SUCH NOTES ILLEGALLY ISSUED, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR”

By virtue of the powers vested in me by section 3 of Republic Act No. 211, and the public interest so requiring, I, Eipidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, do hereby extend the period for the registration and deposit of Philippine National Bank circulating notes illegally issued, and those which were certified to by the Secretary of Finance as having been illegally issued, for 60 days, or from December 1, 1948, to January 31, 1949, both dates inclusive.

Done in the City of Manila, this 6th day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the third.

(SGD.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD.) TEODORO EVANGELISTA

Executive Secretary