General Appropriations Act of 1949-1950

January 6, 1950

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 424

AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR THE OPERATION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES DURING THE PERIOD FROM JULY ONE, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-NINE TO JUNE THIRTY, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

SECTION 1. Out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following sums are hereby appropriated for the operation of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines during the period from July one, nineteen hundred and forty-nine to June thirty, nineteen hundred and fifty, as provided in Executive Order Nos. 225, 226, 239 and 240, series of 1949:

A.	The several sums appropriated in Republic
	Act Numbered Three hundred and twenty for
	the same purposes, services, and activities therein
	specified, all the provisions of the said Act being
	hereby reenacted and made a part hereof (Executive
	Order No. 225, series of 1949	P232,300,297.00
B.	The following sums, or so much thereof
	as may be necessary, for the several purposes, services
	and activities established by laws hereinafter mentioned,
	all the special and general provisions of Republic Act
	Numbered Three hundred and twenty being hereby
	made applicable to them (Executive Order No. 240,
	series of 1949):
	1.	For the operation and maintenance of
		the national agricultural school in the
		Province of Occidental Negros (Republic
		Act No. 43)	P289,500.00
	2.	For additional personnel of the Bureau of
		Commerce needed in the enforcement of
		the Bonded Warehouse Act, etc. (Republic
		Act No. 247)	10,000.00
	3.	For canvassing, locating and evaluating deposits
		of minerals needed in the development of
		Philippine industries (Republic Act No. 249)	200,000.00
	4.	For the establishment and operation of the
		customs service at the port of San Fernando,
		Province of La Union (Republic Act No. 284)	25,000.00
	5.	Judiciary Act of 1948 (Republic Act No. 296)	305,513.33
	6.	To establish, organize and maintain one national
		junior agricultural high school in Bunawan,
		Agusan (Republic Act No. 301)  cdt	50,000.00
	7.	For the maintenance of various agricultural
		schools (Republic Act No. 303)	400,000.00
	8.	For the registration of the claims of all officers
		and employees of the Government of the
		Commonwealth, etc., to salaries and wages
		during the enemy occupation (Republic
		Act No. 304)	50,000.00
	9.	For the establishment of a school of fisheries in
		Catbalogan, Samar (Republic Act No. 313)	50,000.00
	10.	For the increase in pay and allowances of
		enlisted men of the Philippine Constabulary
		(Republic Act No. 315)	1,960,000.00
	11.	For the increase in pay and allowances of
		enlisted men of the Armed Forces of the
		Philippines (Republic Act No. 315)	1,640,000.00
	12.	For salaries and wages and other expenses
		of the Office of Special Attorneys (Republic
		Act No. 311, as amended by Republic
		Act No. 324)	375,000.00
	13.	Reorganizing the Office of the Solicitor
		General (Republic Act No. 335)	29,400.00
	14.	For salaries and wages and other expenses
		of the Capital City Planning Commission
		in accordance with the provisions of section
		5 of Republic Act No. 333	150,000.00
	15.	Regulating the practice of chemical engineering
		(Republic Act No. 318)	2,000.00
	16.	For the operation and maintenance of
		additional classes in the Philippine Normal
		School (Republic Act No. 336)	99,500.00
	17.	For the operation and maintenance of the
		Pangasinan Normal School (Republic
		Act No. 336)	57,800.00
	18.	For the operation and maintenance of existing
		elementary classes (Republic Act No. 346)	33,698,988.00
	19.	For the adjustment of the salaries of public
		school officials, teachers and other school
		personnel of the Bureau of Public Schools
		(Republic Act No. 347)	12,000,000.00
	20.	For expenses in connection with the
		establishment of a municipal maternity and
		charity clinic in every municipality and municipal
		district in accordance with the provisions of
		Republic Act No. 185  cd	1,000,000.00
	21.	For the adjustment of the salaries of teachers
		and other school personnel in the Social
		Welfare Commission in accordance with the
		provisions of Republic Act No. 312	9,440.00
	Less — Amount to be paid out of the receipts
	under section 6 of Act No. 3203, as amended	(7,560.00)
		Total	P52,404,581.33
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C.	The following sums, or so much thereof as
	may be necessary, for the following purposes, all the
	special and general provisions of Republic Act Numbered
	Three hundred and twenty being hereby made applicable
	to them (Executive Order No. 239, series of 1949):
	1.	For continuing the health work and activities
		undertaken by the United States Public
		Health Service in the Philippines	P300,000.00
	2.	For continuing the quarantine work to be
		taken over from the United States Public
		Health Service in accordance with the
		policy to relinquish gradually to the
		Philippine Government all activities now
		being undertaken and financed by the said
		Service under the Philippine Rehabilitation
		Act of 1946	200,000.00
	3.	For the operation and maintenance of
		international air communications, navigation
		services and radio aids paid for by the
		United States Government to be completely
		taken over by the Government of the Republic
		of the Philippines on July 1, 1949	225,000.00
	4.	For the operation and maintenance of the
		Weather Bureau stations paid for by the
		United States Government to be completely
		taken over by the Government of the Republic
		of the Philippines on July 1, 1949	150,000.00
		Total	P875,000.00
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D.	For the expenses in connection with and
	incidental to the holding of the national elections which
	were held on November eight, nineteen hundred and
	forty-nine (Executive Order No. 226, series of 1949)	P6,000,000.00
	GRAND TOTAL OF THE
	APPROPRIATIONS AUTHORIZED
	IN THIS ACT: TWO HUNDRED
	NINETY-ONE MILLION FIVE
	HUNDRED SEVENTY-NINE
	THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED
	SEVENTY-EIGHT PESOS AND
	THIRTY-THREE CENTAVOS	P291,579,878.33
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SUMMARY
Total under subparagraph A	P232,300,297.00
Total under subparagraph B	52,404,581.33
Total under subparagraph C	875,000.00
Total under subparagraph D	6,000,000.00
	GRAND TOTAL	P291,579,878.33
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SECTION 2. The motor vehicles which are to be transferred or which were transferred by the agencies concerned by the United States to the Republic of the Philippines and which are used by the Bureau of Health and the Bureau of Quarantine Service for health, sanitation, and quarantine work for the prevention and control of epidemics, shall continue to be operated and maintained for the same purposes by the said bureaus. cdt

SECTION 3. For the purposes of this Act, Executive Orders Numbered Two hundred twenty-five, Two hundred twenty-six, Two hundred thirty-nine, and Two hundred forty, series of nineteen hundred forty-nine, are hereby ratified, and all acts and disbursements heretofore made in pursuance thereof are hereby authorized.

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

Approved: January 6, 1950

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 46, No. 1, p. 20 in January 1950