EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 390, December 22, 1941

PRESCRIBING THE ORDER OF PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION AND ABOLISHING THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Under authority conferred upon me by the Constitution and laws of the Philippines, and more particularly pursuant to the powers vested in me by Commonwealth Act Numbered Six hundred seventy-one, I, MANUEL L. QUEZON, President of the Philippines, do hereby ordain that the order of precedence and/or succession to the Presidency of the Philippines in case of failure to qualify, removal, termination of the right thereto, death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the office by both the President or President-elect and the Vice President or Vice President-elect, as the case may be, shall, for the purposes of sections 6 and 8 of Art. VII of the Constitution, as amended, be as follows:

Secretary to the President

Secretary of Finance

Secretary of National Defense

Secretary of Justice

Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce

Secretary of Public Works and Communications

Secretary of Public Instruction

Secretary of Labor

Secretary of Health and Public Welfare

The Department of the Interior is hereby abolished and all its bureaus and offices and their powers, functions, duties, records, documents, furniture, office equipment, and property shall be distributed as provided in Commonwealth Act Numbered Six hundred sixty, effective January 1, 1942.

Commonwealth Act Numbered Sixty-eight is hereby declared inoperative.

Done at the City of Manila, this 22nd day of December, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-one, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the seventh.

(Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JORGE B. VARGAS

Secretary to the President