General Appropriations Act of 1950-1951

June 5, 1951

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 628

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 TO JUNE THIRTIETH, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-ONE 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, during the period from July first, nineteen hundred and fifty to June thirtieth, hundred and fifty-one, for the purposes specified hereunder: cd

 

ORDINARY EXPENDITURES
A. — CONGRESS OF THE PHILIPPINES
(2)   HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
(a)   House of Electoral Tribunal
SUNDRY EXPENSES
1.	Traveling expenses of the Tribunal including
	laborers to be used for hauling and handling
	ballot boxes and other election matters	P30,000.00
			—————
	Total for sundry expenses	P30,000.00
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	Total for the House Electoral Tribunal	P30,000.00
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F. — DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
II. — SUNDRY EXPENSES
1.	Additional appropriation for consumption
	of supplies and materials, for the
	Bureau of Prisons	P393,000.00
2.	Additional appropriation for the Bureau of
	Immigration, as follows:
	(a)	Freight, express and delivery service	P850.00
	(b)	Postal, telegraph, telephone and
		cable service	2,500.00
	(c)	Illumination and power service	500.00
	(d)	Consumption of supplies and materials	6,000.00
	(e)	Traveling expenses of persons
		not government employees,
		including subsistence and lodging
		of detainees	23,000.00
			32,850.00
			————
	Total for the Department of Justice	P425.850.00
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L. — DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
II. — SUNDRY EXPENSES
1.	Additional appropriation for consumption of
	supplies and materials, including subsistence
	of patients confined in hospitals and leprosaria
	under the Bureau of Hospitals	P300,000.00
			——————
	Total for the Department of Health	P300,000.00
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	Total for Ordinary Expenditures	P755,850.00
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EXTRAORDINARY EXPENDITURES
K. — DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENSE
SPECIAL PURPOSES
1.	Additional appropriations for expenses
	of the Philippine Veterans Board in carrying
	out the purposes of Republic Act No. 65,
	providing for Bill of Rights for officers
	and enlisted men of the Philippine Army
	and of recognized or deserving guerrilla
	organizations, and veterans of the Philippine
	Revolutions, etc.	P10,000,000.00
SPECIAL EXPENSES
(a)	Payment of pensions to
	veterans, widows, minor
	children and indigent
	parents of deceased veterans	P7,000,000.00
(b)	Payments of educational benefits	P2,950,000.00
(c)	Emergency employees	P50,000.00
			—————
	Total		P10,000,000.00
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2.	For expenses to cover the cost and
	transportation charges of rice and soap sent
	to Korea for consumption and use of the
	members of the United Nations Armed
	Forces as contribution of the Philippine
	Government to the United Nations	2,480,000.00
			—————
	Total for the Department of National
	Defense	P12,480,000.00
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	Total for Extraordinary Expenditures	P12,480,000.00
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	Total for Ordinary and Extraordinary
	Expenditures	P13,325,850.00
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SPECIAL PROVISION

SECTION 1. The provisions of Republic Act No. 573, notwithstanding, any savings in the appropriations authorized in the said Act may be used to pay the cost and transportation charges of commodities sent to Korea for consumption of the United Nations Armed Forces as contribution of the Philippine Government to the United Nations. cdt

SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect as of July first, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty.

Approved: June 5, 1951.

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 47, No. 7, p. 3326 in July 1951