Appropriation of Additional Funds for the Operation and Maintenance of the Philippine Government During the Period 1952-1953

June 19, 1953

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 891

AN ACT APPROPRIATING ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR THE OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES DURING THE PERIOD FROM JULY FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-TWO TO JUNE THIRTIETH, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-THREE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

SECTION 1. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are appropriated out of any funds in the Philippine Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the period from July first, nineteen hundred and fifty-two to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifty-three, for the purposes specified hereunder. acd

 

ORDINARY EXPENDITURES
A. — CONGRESS OF THE PHILIPPINES
(2)   HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
I. — Salaries and Wages
1.	For other services, including transportation
	and additional secretarial services for the
	Members of the House of Representatives
	or expenses incurred by direction of the
	Speaker	P75,000.00
2.	For the supplementary force that may be
	employed at any time in the discretion of
	the Speaker, including additional
	compensation for per diems to the military
	and police attaches of the Speaker	P75,000.00
		—————
	Total for salaries and wages	P150,000.00
		=========
II. — Sundry Expenses
1.	For payment of the cash commutation
	of the accumulated vacation and/or
	sick leaves of secretarial and clerical
	personnel of the Members of the
	House of Representatives	P100,000.00
		—————
	Total for sundry expenses	P100,000.00
		=========
	Total amount available for the
	House of Representatives	P250,000.00
		=========
H. — DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS
IV. — Special Purposes
1.	For the transportation of foreign air
	mail, Bureau of Posts	P1,500,000.00
		——————
	Total amount available for the
	Department of Public Works
	and Communications	P1,500,000.00
		==========
I. — DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
IV. — Special Purposes
1.	For the operation and maintenance
	of 3,000 additional public elementary
	classes including salaries of teachers,
	salary adjustments for 1950-1951,
	sundry expenses, purchase of
	equipment and for the purchase of
	textbooks, Bureau of Public Schools	P6,103,900.00
		——————
	Total amount available for the
	Department of Education	P6,103,900.00
		==========
L. — DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
II. — Sundry Expenses
1.	Consumption of supplies and
	materials, Bureau of Hospitals	P230,000.00
	North General Hospital	P100,000.00
	National Orthopedic Hospital	P100,000.00
	National Indigent Children's
	Hospital	P30,000.00
		—————
		P230,000.00
		=========
	Total amount available for the
	Department of Health	P230,000.00
		=========
	Total amount available for
	Ordinary Expenditures	P8,083,900.00
		==========
EXTRAORDINARY EXPENDITURES
K. — DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENSE
Special Purpose
1.	For payment of family subsistence
	allowance to officers and enlisted
	men of the Armed Forces of the
	Philippines assigned to overseas duty,
	authorized in Republic Act No. 815	P1,500,000.00
		——————
	Total amount available for the
	Department of National Defense	P1,500,000.00
		===========
	Total amount available for
	Extraordinary Expenditures	P1,500,000.00
		===========
GRAND TOTAL OF THE
APPROPRIATIONS AUTHORIZED
IN THIS ACT: NINE MILLION, FIVE
HUNDRED EIGHTY-THREE
THOUSAND, NINE HUNDRED
PESOS	P9,583,900.00
		==========

 

 

SECTION 2. The provisions of Republic Act Numbered Eight hundred and sixteen to the contrary notwithstanding, any savings from the appropriations authorized in the said Act for the Department of Justice and the Department of National Defense may be used to cover the following additional expenses of said departments, respectively, not exceeding the amounts specified hereunder: cdt

 

F. — DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
II. — SUNDRY EXPENSES
1.	Traveling expenses of personnel,
	Court of Industrial Relations	P10,000.00
2.	Postal, telegraph, telephone, cable
	and radio service, Bureau of Immigration	3,700.00
3.	Illumination and power service,
	Bureau of Immigration	2,500.00
4.	Rental of buildings and grounds,
	Bureau of Immigration	100.00
5.	Consumption of supplies and
	materials, Bureau of Immigration	14,000.00
6.	Traveling expenses or persons
	not government employees, including
	subsistence of alien detainees which in
	no case shall exceed P1.50 per day,
	Bureau of Immigration	27,500.00
7.	Maintenance and repair of equipment,
	Bureau of Immigration	460.00
8.	Other services, Bureau of Immigration	1,740.00
		—————
	Total for sundry expenses	P60,000.00
		=========
	Total amount available for the
	Department of Justice	P60,000.00
		=========
K. — DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENSE
ARMED FORCES OF THE PHILIPPINES
I. — Salaries and Wages
1.	For the implementation of the
	Minimum Wage Law	P1,369,005.00
General Headquarters	P110,000.00
Philippine Constabulary	160,000.00
Philippine Army	930,005.00
Philippine Air Force	82,000.00
Philippine Navy	87,000.00
		P1,369,005.00
		==========
	Total amount available for the
	Department of National
	Defense	P1,369,005.00
		==========

 

 

SECTION 3. The special and general provisions of Republic Act Numbered Eight hundred and sixteen are hereby made applicable to the appropriations provided in this Act: Provided, That no portion of the different items of the appropriations contained in this Act shall be transferred to any other item.

SECTION 4. Effective date. — This Act shall take effect as of July first, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-Two.

Approved: June 19, 1953

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 49, No. 7, p. 2689 in July 1953.