MOP, Bk 3, v. 4, 350
(a) Major General Paulino Santos, Regular Force, is hereby relieved as Chief of Staff at the close of the day on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred thirty-eight, and will be retired from active service as of the same date.Done at the City of Manila, this thirty-first day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the fourth.
(b) Major General Basilio J. Valdes, Regular Force, Deputy Chief of Staff, is hereby designated Chief of Staff Vice Major General Paulino Santos, and will assume the duties prescribed for that Office in the National Defense Act and in pertinent executive orders, effective January first, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine.