Pursuant to the provisions of section 564 of the Revised Administrative Code, the office hours of all Government bureaus and offices, including the provincial, city and municipal governments, during the period from April 1 to June 1, 1948, both dates inclusive, are hereby fixed to five continuous hours which shall be from eight o’clock in the morning to one o’ clock in the afternoon.  The provisions of this Order shall not apply to the offices in the City of Baguio , whether national, provincial or municipal.

This order shall not oblige the head of any department, bureau, or office to reduce as herein provided the office hours in his department, bureau, or office, but leaves the same in his discretion subject to the requirements of the service.

Done at the City of Manila , this 19th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and of the Independence of the Philippines , the second.

 

	(Sgd.) MANUEL ROXAS
	President of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) EMILIO ABELLO
Chief of the Executive Office