June 16, 1953

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 869

AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR RELIEF IN THE PROVINCES VISITED BY TYPHOONS, FLOODS, DROUGHTS, EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANIC ACTION DURING THE CALENDAR YEARS NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-ONE AND NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-TWO, 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, to be expended for assistance to the victims of, and for the rehabilitation or replacement or services or installations damaged by, typhoons, floods, droughts, earthquakes and volcanic action during the calendar years nineteen hundred and fifty-one and nineteen hundred and fifty-two, including the purchase of supplies and materials necessary to increase food production in the areas affected:

 

A.   SOCIAL WELFARE
1.	For the purchase of building materials,
	food supplies, clothing and other relief
	goods, including the expenses for the
	procurement and distribution of the
	same: Provided, That no part of this
	amount shall be used for salaries and
	wages	P2,000,000.00
2.	For aid to the Philippine National Red
	Cross including the acquisition of blood
	plasma	375,000.00
			—————
	Total for Social Welfare	P2,375,000.00
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B.   FINANCE
1.	For aid to provinces, chartered cities
	and municipalities whose revenue
	collections have been greatly reduced
	due to havoc and destruction wrought
	by typhoons, floods, droughts, earthquakes
	and volcanic action during the calendar
	years nineteen hundred and fifty-one
	and nineteen hundred and fifty-two	P1,500,000.00
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C.   AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
1.	For the purchase of seeds and other
	planting materials, as well as the cost
	of their propagation and distribution
	necessitated by the occurrence of
	typhoons, floods, droughts, earthquakes
	and volcanic action during the calendar
	years nineteen hundred and fifty-one
	and nineteen hundred and fifty-two:
	Provided, That no part of this amount
	shall be used for salaries and wages	P750,000.00
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D.   PUBLIC WORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS
1.	For the replacement of scales, mail
	boxes, galvanized iron boxes, steel
	safes, distributing cases, post-office
	boxes, rotary locks, bag racks and
	other damaged post-office equipment	P5,650.00
2.	For the erection of, and stringing wires
	on, blown-down or damaged poles	50,350.00
			—————
	Total for Public Works and
		Communications	P56,000.00
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E.   HEALTH
1.	For the purchase of medicines and
	medical supplies, including first aid
	equipment, to replace damaged ones,
	and to provide adequate facilities for
	those who suffered injuries or contracted
	illness	P40,000.00
2.	For aid for the operation and maintenance
	of hospitals in various provinces, cities and
	municipalities in areas stricken by typhoons,
	floods, earthquakes and volcanic action during
	the calendar years nineteen hundred and
	fifty-one and nineteen hundred and fifty-two
	where local funds are insufficient, including
	emergency hospitals, maternity and children
	hospitals, puericulture centers, charity clinics
	and public dispensaries	2,000,000.00
3.	For the purchase of hospital supplies and
	materials to replace those damaged or
	destroyed by typhoons, floods,
	earthquakes and volcanic action during
	the calendar years nineteen hundred
	and fifty-one and nineteen hundred and
	fifty-two	150,000.00
			—————
	Total for Health	P2,190,000.00
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F.   EDUCATION
1.	For rentals of buildings and other
	necessary expenses for the reopening
	of classes which were suspended as
	a consequence of typhoons, floods,
	earthquakes and volcanic action during
	the calendar years nineteen hundred
	and fifty-one and nineteen hundred and
	fifty-two and for reconstruction of most
	urgent school buildings destroyed:
	Provided, That out of this appropriation,
	an amount not exceeding two million
	two hundred and fifty thousand pesos
	shall be allotted for the calendar year
	nineteen hundred and fifty-one	P6,250,000.00
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GRAND TOTAL OF THE APPROPRIATIONS
AUTHORIZED IN THIS ACT: THIRTEEN
MILLION ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-
ONE THOUSAND PESOS	P13,121,000.00
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SECTION 2. Within sixty days from the approval of this Act, the extent of the damages, as far as Items A and F above are concerned, suffered in the provinces and cities visited by typhoons, floods, droughts, earthquakes and volcanic action during the calendar years nineteen hundred and fifty-one and nineteen hundred and fifty-two shall be ascertained by a Committee to be composed of the Provincial Governor, as Chairman, and the Provincial Treasurer, Division Superintendent of Schools, District Health Officer and District Engineer, as members; and in case of funds allotted to a city, by a Committee composed of the City Mayor, as Chairman and the City Treasurer, City Superintendent of Schools, City Health Officer and City Engineer, as members who shall submit their report to the President to serve as guide in the allocation of the funds to the stricken areas in proportion to the damages suffered by each province or city. acd

SECTION 3. A Committee composed of three members of the Finance Committee of the Senate and three members of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives to be appointed by the presiding officers of each House, respectively, is hereby constituted to look into the allotment and expenditures of the funds appropriated in this Act. The said Committee is authorized to function during the recess of the Congress and shall submit its reports of findings and recommendations to the Congress.

SECTION 4. Any sum remaining unexpended on December thirty-one, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, out of the funds appropriated in this Act shall revert to the unappropriated surplus of the general fund.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect as of July first, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-Two.

Approved: June 16, 1953

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 49, No. 6, p. 2146 in June 1953