EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 300 - PLACING THE BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION UNDER THE SUPERVISION AND CONTROL OF THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

Pursuant to the power vested in me under section two of Commonwealth Act No. 613, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, do hereby direct that, for administrative purposes, the Bureau of Immigration be under the supervision and control of the Office of the President of the Philippines.

Done at the City of Manila, this 3rd day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the fifth.

(Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON President of the Philippines

By the President:

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