Additional Expropriation for General Census-Taking

June 21, 1947

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 187

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR AN ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATION OF FOUR HUNDRED EIGHTY THOUSAND PESOS TO MEET EXPENSES OF ENUMERATION IN A GENERAL CENSUS-TAKING AUTHORIZED BY REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED THIRTY-SIX

SECTION 1. In addition to the sum of four hundred eighty thousand pesos already appropriated under Republic Act Numbered Thirty-six, otherwise known as "Census Act of nineteen hundred and forty-six," the sum of four hundred eighty thousand pesos or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Philippine Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to meet the expenses of enumeration, including payments for salaries, wages and traveling expenses of personnel and other incidental expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of the said "Census Act of nineteen hundred and forty-six."

The sum herein appropriated shall not be released unless and until the Secretary of Finance and the Auditor General shall have certified to the President that there are funds existing and available in excess of the appropriations in the General Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1948.

SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 21, 1947

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 43, No. 7, p. 2907 in July 1947