Proclamation No. 740




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ Proclamation No. 740, August 10, 1941 ] PUBLISHING THE MILITARY ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, DATED JULY 26, 1941, INCORPORATING THE PHILIPPINE ARMY INTO THE UNITED STATES ARMY. For the information and guidance of all concerned, I, MANUEL L. QUEZON, President of the Philippines, do hereby publish the following Military Order of the President of the United States, dated July 26, 1941: “MILITARY ORDER “ORGANIZED MILITARY FORCES OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES CALLED INTO SERVICE OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES. “Under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution of the United States, by section 2(a) (12) of the Philippine Independence Act of March 24, 1934 (48 Stat. 457), and by the corresponding provision of the Ordinance appended to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, I hereby call and order into the service of the armed forces of the United States for the period of the existing emergency, and place under the command of a general officer, United States Army, to be designated by the Secretary of War from time to time, all of the organized military forces of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines: Provided, That all naval components thereof shall be placed under the command of the Commandant of the Sixteenth Naval District, United States Navy. “This Order shall take effect with relation to all units and personnel of the organized military forces of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, from and after the days and hours, respectively, indicated in orders to be issued from time to time by the general officer, United States Army, designated by the Secretary of War. “FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT “THE WHITE HOUSE, July 26, 1941.” In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Commonwealth of the Philippines to be affixed.1aшphi1 Done at the City of Manila, this tenth day of August, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-one, 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 The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation