EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 218, August 25, 1939

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 218, August 25, 1939 ]

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