AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 166, DATED OCTOBER 8, 1938, REGARDING REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE HALF-MASTING OF FLAGS ON GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS
Executive Order Numbered One hundred sixty-six, dated October eighth, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, promulgating regulations governing the half-masting of flags on Government buildings, is amended by adding thereto the following paragraph:
“8. On the death or during the funeral of any ranking officer of a Bureau, office, agency, or instrumentality of the Government the flags on the public buildings thereof may be ordered at half-mast by the Department Head concerned.”
Done at the City of Manila, this twenty-fifth day of August, 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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