In view of the present emergency, and pursuant to the provisions of Commonwealth Act No. 670 the payment of salaries in advance not exceeding a period of three months to all officers and employees of the National, provincial, city, or municipal governments, including their agencies and instrumentalities, is hereby authorized.

Done at the City of Manila this twelfth day of December, Nineteen hundred and forty-one, in the year of Our Lord, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the seventh.


By the President:

(Sgd.) JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President