AMENDING PARAGRAPH (7) OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 161, DATED AUGUST 23, 1938, ENTITLED “PROMULGATING REGULATIONS TO GOVERN THE ADMINISTRATION AND COLLECTION OF DELINQUENT IRRIGATION FEES FROM LANDOWNERS UNDER IRRIGATION SYSTEMS CONSTRUCTED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF ACT NO. 2152, AS AMENDED, FIXING ADJUSTED IRRIGATION FEES FOR SAID SYSTEMS AND PRESCRIBING THE MANNER OF COLLECTING SAME, AND REVOKING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 142, DATED FEBRUARY 15, 1038.”
Paragraph (7) of Executive Order Numbered One hundred sixty-one, dated August twenty-three, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, is hereby amended to read as follows: “(7) The owners of lands that have been forfeited to or purchased by the Government through judicial proceedings to satisfy the nonpayment of irrigation fees, and which lands now remain in the possession of the Government, shall be allowed until December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, to file applications for the repurchase of such lands under, the conditions prescribed in Executive Order Numbered One hundred eight, dated August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven.”
Done at the City of Manila, this eleventh day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the fourth.
MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines
By the President:
JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President
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