Appropriation Funds for the Election of Elective Provincial, City and Municipal Officials and Eight Senators

June 5, 1951

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 626

AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF FOUR MILLION PESOS TO DEFRAY THE EXPENSES OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT IN CONNECTION WITH THE ELECTION OF ELECTIVE PROVINCIAL, CITY AND MUNICIPAL OFFICIALS AND OF THE EIGHT SENATORS TO BE HELD IN NOVEMBER THIRTEEN, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-ONE

SECTION 1. Out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated there is hereby appropriated the sum of four million pesos for the payment, subject to the approval of the Commission on Elections, of the expenses which may be incurred by the National Government in the holding of the election on November thirteen, nineteen hundred and fifty-one of the elective provincial, city and municipal official and of the eight senators who will succeed those whose terms of office will expire on December thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifty-one. The sum herein appropriated shall be liable for the corresponding share of the National Government in the expenses of the election in accordance with section twenty-four of the Revised Election Code.

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

Approved: June 5, 1951.

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 47, No. 7, p. 3325 in July 1951