Authority to Increase Enlisted Strength of the Philippine Constabulary

December 8, 1934

ACT NO. 4188

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE AN INCREASE IN THE ENLISTED STRENGTH OF THE PHILIPPINE CONSTABULARY, TO APPROPRIATE NECESSARY FUNDS THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

SECTION 1. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated to be placed at the disposal of the Chief of the Philippine Constabulary subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior and the provisions hereinafter set forth, and for the purposes mentioned hereunder:

A.	For the pay of the following additional men needed to
	increase the present strength of the Philippine Constabulary
	as authorized in Act Numbered Four thousand and
	seventy-four, otherwise known as Appropriation Act
	of nineteen hundred and thirty-four, and to be allocated
	by the said Chief of Constabulary as the exigencies
	of the service may require, to wit:
	1.	Two medical inspectors with rank
		of first lieutenant	P4,080.00
	2.	Two dental officers with rank
		of first lieutenant	4,080.00
	3.	Twenty of the present number of first
		sergeants will be reduced to sergeants and to
		provide forty-nine additional sergeants,
		giving a total of sixty-nine additional sergeants	13,816.00
	4.	One hundred forty-seven corporals	38,808.00
	5.	One thousand six hundred
		forty-seven privates	276,696.00
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	Total-1,847	P337,480.00
B.	For house allowance of four officers with rank
	of first lieutenant	1,920.00
C.	For the subsistence of additional men enumerated
	in paragraph A, at thirty centavos per day	201,808.50
D.	For the clothing allowance of the number of men
	enumerated in paragraph A, at sixteen centavos per
	day and for their initial allowance of forty-eight
	pesos for the term of service for three years	196,095.20
E.	For the purchase of rifles and new revolvers to
	arm the additional men asked for in paragraph A,
	and for miscellaneous equipment	221,000.00
F.	Traveling expenses for personnel	10,000.00
G.	Illumination and power service	4,000.00
H.	Rental of buildings and ground	5,000.00
I.	Supplies and materials (for repair of buildings)	P48,000.00
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	Total		P1,025,303.70
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Provided, however, That of this total increase of enlisted men not less than six hundred will be stationed in Mindanao and Sulu.

SECTION 2. The funds herein appropriated to carry out the purposes of this Act shall be released upon previous certification by the Secretary of Finance that such funds are available from the Insular Treasury.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, December 8, 1934.