Appropriating Additional Sums for the Operation of the Philippine Army for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1946

November 1, 1945

COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 717

AN ACT APPROPRIATING ADDITIONAL SUMS FOR THE OPERATION OF THE PHILIPPINE ARMY FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIX

SECTION 1. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Philippine Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the operation of the Philippine Army for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and forty-six, in addition to the appropriations authorized therefor in the Appropriation Act for said fiscal year.

The additional amounts herein appropriated shall be used for increase in the strength of the Philippine Army, as follows:

 

PHILIPPINE ARMY
PURPOSE I — PERSONNEL
A. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND CADETS
1.	Base pay	P991,938.00
2.	Flying pay of officers on flying status, per diems
	of special air corps instructors, and per diems,
	allowances, and necessary expenses of Philippine
	Scouts enlisted instructors detailed to the
	Philippine Army	20,347.00
3.	Rental and commutation of quarters for officers	183,520.00
4.	Commutation of subsistence allowance for
	officers at P1.50 each per day	561,187.00
B. REGULAR FORCE — ENLISTED MEN
5.	Base pay	4,216,660.00
6.	Additional pay for air mechanics	83,700.00
7.	Clothing allowance for enlisted men	3,712,880.00
C. CIVIL EMPLOYEES
Casualty Division
8.	One principal clerk	1,800.00
9.	One clerk	1,200.00
10.	Two stenographers at P1,200	2,400.00
11.	Two clerk-stenographers at P960	1,920.00
12.	Six clerk-typists at P840	5,040.00
13.	Two clerk-messengers at P600	1,200.00
Recovered Personnel Division
14.	One stenographer	1,800.00
15.	One stenographer	1,200.00
16.	Ten typists at P960	9,600.00
17.	Five typists at P840	4,200.00
D. GRATUITIES AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GOVERNMENT SERVICE INSURANCE SYSTEM
18.	Extra premiums on policies of officers and enlisted
	men, section 24, Commonwealth Act No. 186	83,927.00
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	Total Purpose I — Personnel	9,884,519.00
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PURPOSE II — MAINTENANCE OF PERSONNEL
A. SUBSISTENCE
19.	Subsistence of the regular force	5,076,137.00
B. SANITATION
20.	Hospitalization	1,000.00
C. WELFARE
21.	Recreation of the Army	5,000.00
D. BURIAL
22.	Burial of officers, enlisted men, and trainees
	who die while in active service	9,000.00
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	Total for Purpose II — Maintenance of personnel	5,091,137.00
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PURPOSE III — TRANSPORTATION
23.	Upkeep and operation of water craft	1,200,000.00
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	Total for Purpose III — Transportation	1,200,000.00
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PURPOSE IV — ARMAMENT, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES
A. ARMAMENT AND EQUIPMENT
24.	Quartermaster equipment, including furniture
	for officers, quarters, maintenance and repair,
	semi-expendable and consumable supplies, and
	materials as may be considered by the Army
	authorities as equipment under this item	370,000.00
25.	Engineer equipment	91,400.00
B. SUPPLIES
26.	Offshore patrol fuel, oil and other supplies	1,884,975.00
27.	Engineer supplies	41,350.00
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	Total for Purpose IV — Armament,
	equipment and supplies	2,387,725.00
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PURPOSE V — CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE
28.	Construction, maintenance and repair of airfields,
	posts and buildings, water supply and utilities,
	including the acquisition and improvements of
	sites	2,100,000.00
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	Total for Purpose V — Construction and
	maintenance	2,100,000.00
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PURPOSE VI — SPECIAL PURPOSE
29.	To be paid as bonus from July 1, 1945, to enlisted
	men of the Army, the Army band, and the air
	corps, Philippine Army, at a rate or in an amount
	equal to the difference between their present pay
	and the following new schedule of pay:
	Master sergeant	P130.00
	First sergeant	106.00
	Technical sergeant	106.00
	Staff sergeant	90.00
	Sergeant	70.00
	Corporal	60.00
	Private first class	47.00
	Private	43.00
Band —
	Assistant conductor	130.00
	Soloist professor	106.00
	First-class musician	90.00
	Second-class musician	70.00
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		30,000,000.00
30.	Retirement pay or gratuity to officers of the
	Philippine Army who may retire from the
	service under the provisions of Commonwealth
	Act No. 385 as amended or of the Osmeña
	Retirement Act	547,273.00
31.	Winter clothing allowance for Philippine Army
	officers sent to the United States Army Service
	and Police Schools for advanced studies and
	training, at an average allowance of P400 per
	officer	369,000.00
32.	Per diems of Philippine Army officers sent to
	the United States Army Service Schools for
	advanced studies and training at $5 or P10 per
	day for an average period course of 90 days	1,281,600.00
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	Total for Purpose VI — Special Purpose	32,197,873.00
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SUMMARY
	PURPOSE I — Personnel	P9,884,519.00
	PURPOSE II — Maintenance of personnel	5,091,137.00
	PURPOSE III — Transportation	1,200,000.00
	PURPOSE IV — Armament, equipment and supplies	2,387,725.00
	PURPOSE V — Construction and maintenance	2,100,000.00
	PURPOSE VI — Special purpose	32,197,873.00
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	Total	P52,861,254.00
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SECTION 2. Any provision of existing laws to the contrary notwithstanding, all commissions for third lieutenants are hereby automatically raised to second lieutenants, and hereafter all initial commissions in the Philippine Army shall begin with the rank of Second Lieutenant.

SECTION 3. The President shall have authority to transfer and expend not to exceed fifty per cent of the amount appropriated for any item in any purpose to any other item or items in the same or any other purpose.

SECTION 4. The provisions of any law to the contrary notwithstanding, the portions of the various sums herein appropriated corresponding to the period from July first, nineteen hundred and forty-five, to the time the United States Army ceases to pay the expenses of the Philippine Army and turns over the latter to the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines shall revert to the unappropriated surplus in the Philippine Treasury.

SECTION 5. The funds 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 existing and available funds in the National Treasury in excess of the sums appropriated in the General Appropriation Law for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and forty-six, and the priority appropriations established by law: Provided, That the President may order the release in full or in installments of the funds herein authorized as the Secretary of Finance and the Auditor General may certify to their existence and availability. cSIHCA

SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, November 1, 1945.