EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 260, March 12, 1940

EXTENDING THE APPLICATION OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 68 DATED MARCH 17, 1938, TO THE CREATION AND FILLING OF POSITIONS CARRYING COMPENSATION AT THREE THOUSAND PESOS OR MORE PER ANNUM IN THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS, CHARTERED CITIES, AND CORPORATIONS OWNED OR CONTROLLED BY THE GOVERNMENT AND THEIR SUBSIDIARIES

For the purpose of uniformity in the appointment of officials and employees in the different offices, branches, and instrumentalities of the government I, MANUEL L. QUEZON, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution and existing laws, hereby order that the provision of paragraph 1 of Administrative Order No. 63 dated March 17, 1938, requiring the approval of the President in cases of appointments to positions in the National Government carrying a salary of three thousand pesos or more per annum, be extended so as to apply also to the creation or filling of any position carrying a compensation at the rate of three thousand pesos or more payable from the funds of provincial governments, chartered cities, and corporations owned or controlled by the Government and their subsidiaries.

Nothing herein contained shall be construed as modifying or repealing the provisions of Executive Order No. 221 dated September 9, 1939.

Done at the City of Manila, this 12th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the fifth.

(Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JORGE B. VARGAS

Secretary to the President