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MALACAÑAN PALACE

MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 325

REVISING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 290, DATED JULY 8, 1940, PROMULGATING RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE GIVING OF SECURITY FOR EVERY FIREARM HELD UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 888 OF THE REVISED ADMINISTRATIVE CODE.

Pursuant to the authority vested in me under section nine hundred and five of the Revised Administrative Code, I,` Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, do hereby issue the following rules and regulations to govern the giving of security for every firearm held on license issued under the provisions of section eight hundred and eighty-eight of the same Code:

1. Any person desiring to possess one or more firearms for personal protection or for use in hunting or other lawful purposes, and ammunition thereof shall, upon making application therefor and before receiving the license, for the purpose of security, deposit a United States or Philippine Government bond or make a cash deposit with the postal Savings Bank in the sum of forty pesos for each firearm for which the license is to be issued and indorse the certificate of deposit therefor to the Treasurer of the Philippines, such deposit to bear no interest; or give a personal or property bond signed by two (2) persons or by a surety company in such form as the President may prescribe, payable to the Government of the Philippines, in the sum of one hundred pesos for each such firearms.

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2. Gun clubs duly organized and accredited by the Chief of Constabulary and their bona fide and active members may be allowed to possess firearms on licenses, provided that the club shall for the purpose of security, deposit United States or Philippine Government bond or make a cash deposit with the Postal Savings Bank (to bear no interest) or surety bond, to guarantee the safekeeping of the firearms or surety bond, to guarantee the safe-keeping of the firearms licensed to clubs and their members, under the following graduated schedule and conditions:

(a) Graduated schedule:

1. For a gun club having from 1 to 50 firearms
licensed to the club and bona fide and active
members

2. For a gun club having from 51 to 100 firearms....
3. For a gun club having from 101 to 200 firearms....
4. For a gun club having from 201 to 300 firearms
5. For a gun club having from 301 to 400 firearms
6. For a gun club having from 401 to 500 firearms
7. For a gun club having from 501 to 600 firearms....
8. For a gun club having from 601 to 700 firearms....
9. For a gun club having from 701 to 800 firearms
10. For a gun club having from 801 to 900 firearms
11. For a gun club having from 901 to 1000 firearms
12. For each 200 firearms or fraction thereof in excess

of 1,000 firearms

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(b) Gun clubs may be allowed to possess on licenses, for the use of its members at the clubs, not to exceed twenty (20) firearms (rifles, pistols, revolvers, or shotguns).

(c) The amount of 40 or 100, as the case may be, shall be forfeited or collected for each firearm lost.

(d) In case the amount of bond filed is not sufficient to cover the penalty for the number of lost firearms, the club shall pay the full amount corresponding to the number of lost firearms.

(e) Any club or member who loses a firearm shall within five (5) days report the loss in writing to the Chief of Constabulary. Failure to render the required report without justifiable reason, shall disqualify the club or member from possessing new or additional firearm.

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(ƒ) All gun clubs shall furnish the Chief of Constabulary, within sixty (60) days from the date hereof, a list of their members in alphabetical order, giving the numbers of licenses and description of the firearms. The club shall also furnish the Chief of Constabulary, at the end of each month, a list containing the names of new members and members who have been separated, in the same manner as the original list is furnished.

3. The bonds existing upon the promulgation of this Executive Order shall continue as they are or, at the option of the interested party, the same can be renewed in accordance with the provisions hereof.

4. Executive Order Numbered Two hundred and ninety, dated July 8, 1940, is hereby revised accordingly.

Done at the City of Manila, this thirteenth day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fortyone, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the sixth. MANUEL L. QUEZON President of the Philippines

By the President:

JORGE B. VARGAS

Secretary to the President

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FIRST NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
Special Session

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[COMMONWEALTH ACT No. 163]

B. No. 2328

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SEVEN OF THE REVISED ADMINISTRATIVE CODE RELATIVE TO THE AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES TO INVEST THE DIRECTOR OF HEALTH WITH SPECIAL POWERS IN CERTAIN CASES.

Be it enacted by the National Assembly of the Philippines: SECTION 1. Section nine hundred and forty-seven of the Revised Administrative Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

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"SEC. 947. Authority by the President of the Philippines to invest Director of Health with special powers in certain cases. When it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the President of the Philippines that the City of Manila or any province or part of the Philippines is threatened with or suffering from an epidemic of dangerous communicable disease, he may issue an executive order declaring that the place or portion in question is so threatened with or suffering from an epidemic and he may, in such order, invest the Director of Health with emergency powers, to be defined in said order, with authority to prescribe, subject to the approval of the Department Head, such emergency health regulations as may be deemed necessary to prevent or suppress the occurrence or spread of the epidemic in question. Such regulations shall, from issuance, have the same force and effect and shall be enforced in the same manner as if enacted by legislative authority, throughout the city, district, or part thereof specified in such regulations.

"When it is shown to the satisfaction of the President of the Philippines that the danger of an epidemic has

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passed, he shall so declare by executive order, and upon publication of such executive order the emergency health regulations shall become null and void, unless in such executive order it is specially declared that one or more of the emergency regulations shall remain in effect for a further period to be prescribed.

"When, for the protection of the health of the personnel of the Philippine Army and the trainees undergoing instruction in military training camps, it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the President of the Philippines that necessity exists therefor, he may invest the Director of Health with similar authority to prescribe, subject to the approval of the Department Head, such special health regulations as may be deemed necessary to prevent or suppress epidemic or endemic diseases within a circular area or zone having a radius of five or more kilometers from an army post as a center, this area to be designated as "Philippine Army Extra Cantonment Zone." All such special health regulations to be known as "Extra Cantonment Sanitary Regulations" shall have full force and effect within the designated zone and any provisions of local laws, regulations, or ordinances inconsistent or repugnant therewith, shall be suspended during such periods of time as may be determined by the President: Provided, That the Director of Health may, upon request of the Chief of Staff of the Philippine Army, designate a medical officer of an army post as his special representative to enforce such health regulations as may be prescribed within the limits of the Extra Cantonment Zone."

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved, November 9, 1936.

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