In Re: Mariano Manas

EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 3 Whereas Mariano Manas has been certified by the provincial board of Laguna, acting as a board of canvasser, to have received a plurality of the votes legally cast for third member of the provincial board of Laguna in the general elections held in the said province of June fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, under the provisions of section three of Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and eighty-two, section three of Act Numbered Two thousand and forty-five, section one Act Numbered Twenty-one hundred and seventy; and Whereas the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands in the case of Topacio vs. Paredes et al. (Vol. X No. 44, Official Gazette, p.1830) held that under the law at present it is not only proper for the Chief Executive to consider questions of ineligibility of an elective provincial official when the matter is brought before him after the election but before the latter's induction into office but this is the only remedy available now to prevent an ineligible person from holding an elective provincial office; and...