Appropriating Funds for the Armed Forces of the Philippines

June 8, 1950

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 461

AN ACT APPROPRIATING AN ADDITIONAL SUM OF TWENTY MILLION PESOS FOR THE ARMED FORCES OF THE PHILIPPINES FOR THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF PEACE AND ORDER

SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Philippine Treasury not otherwise appropriated an additional sum of twenty million pesos for the Armed Forces of the Philippines for the campaign for the maintenance of peace and order, as hereunder specified:

 

1.	Base pay of officers		P1,106,280.00
2.	Quarters allowance of officers		194,880.00
3.	Subsistence allowance of officers		135,415.00
4.	Base pay of enlisted men		5,960,040.00
5.	Quarters allowance of enlisted men		1,026,144.00
6.	Subsistence allowance of enlisted men		2,905,035.00
7.	Clothing allowance of enlisted men		1,169,973.00
8.	For organizational and individual
	equipment and supplies including
	operational expenses, replacement
	and repair of equipment		7,217,133.00
	(a)	Ordinance	P2,860,133.00
	(b)	Engineers	1,418,000.00
	(c)	Signal	987,000.00
	(d)	Quartermaster	1,095,000.00
	(e)	Medical	857,000.00
		Total	P7,217,133.00
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9.	For intelligence and counter-intelligence
	work, including the payment of rewards for
	the capture, dead or alive, of dissident elements
	and for such other expenditures that may be
	needed in connection with the campaign against
	dissident elements  cdt		285,100.00
(a)	Intelligence and counter-
	intelligence, including
	rewards	P145,000.00
(b)	Traveling expenses	100,000.00
(c)	Miscellaneous and
	incidental expenses	40,100.00
	Total		P285,100.00
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	Total			P20,000,000.00
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SECTION 2. No portion of this appropriation shall be used for the purchase of staff cars. cd

SECTION 3. Whenever in his judgment the public interest so requires, the President of the Philippines shall have authority to transfer any portion of the appropriations provided in this Act from one item to another for the Armed Forces of the Philippines: Provided, however, That no item shall be augmented by more than fifty per centum of the original appropriation provided in this Act for such item.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 8, 1950

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 46, No. 7, p. 2971 in July 1950