MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 140, February 07, 1938 ]

FIXING THE SALARIES OF THE OFFICERS OF THE PHILIPPINE ARMY

Pursuant to the provisions of section ninety of the National Defense Act, I, MANUEL L. QUEZON, President of the Philippines, do hereby prescribe the following schedule of salary rates for officers of the Philippine Army, effective February first, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight:

Minimum Maximum
Major General—Chief of Staff P8,500.00
Major Generals 7,800.00
Brigadier Generals P6,600.00 7,200.00
Colonels 5,400.00 6,000.00
Lieutenant Colonels 4,200.00 4,800.00
Majors 3,300.00 3,600.00
Captains 2,700.00 3,000.00
First lieutenants 2,220.00 2,400.00
Second lieutenants 1,920.00 2,040.00
Third lieutenants 1,800.00

The rate of the salary that shall be received by each individual officer shall be fixed in a plantilla of officers of the Philippine Army to be prepared and approved as required in subparagraph (4), General Provisions, of section seven of  Commonwealth Act Numbered Two hundred and forty-six.

Done at the City of Manila, this seventh day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the third.1âшphi1

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

By the President:

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


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