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After the Philippine Commonwealth was established, the Philippine Legislature enacted Commonwealth Act No. 613 forming the Bureau of Immigration as a separate office from the Bureau of Customs. On May 1, 1947, the Bureau of Customs has as its head the Insular Collector of Customs. He was assisted by the Deputy Insular Collector of Customs.
Immediately after the war, the bureau was transferred near the Gate 1 of the South Harbor in Manila, then moved to Building No. 5 at the Customs Bureau at Gate 4. In 1945, in line with the reorganization plan of the government, the bureau was put under the supervision and control of the Department of Labor.
In World War II, the building once again suffered damage; first from Japanese bombings in 1941 and later on from American and Filipino artillery during the Battle of Manila in 1945. [3] The Aduana was repaired after the war and served as the offices of the Central Bank of the Philippines , the National Treasury and eventually the Commission on ...
The Iloilo Customs House (Spanish: Aduana de Iloílo; Hiligaynon: Adwana sang Iloilo) is a historical building in Iloilo City, Philippines.It was built in 1916 [1] to a design by American architect Ralph Harrington Doane, then Consulting Architect of the Bureau of Public Works in the Philippine Islands.
Port Area, historically known as Port District, [4] was built on reclaimed land in the 1890s, toward the end of the Spanish rule, as an expansion of the Port of Manila. [5] [6] [7] In 1914, administrative oversight of the district was transferred to the Insular Collector of Customs (now Bureau of Customs). [8]
Around this time, the Bureau of Customs had proposed to the Reorganization Committee and to Congress the creation of a separate government agency to integrate the functions of port operations, cargo handling, and port development and maintenance to enable the Bureau to concentrate on tax and customs duties collection. Moreover, manage the ...
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Pages in category "Commissioners of the Bureau of Customs of the Philippines" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .