WHEREAS, Presidential Decree No. 1578, dated June 11, 1978, provides for the grant of Emergency allowance for certain personnel of the National Museum to augment their salaries and to improve their capability and performance; and

WHEREAS, it is necessary to amend Section 1 of Presidential Decree No. 1578, for the purpose of including in the list of personnel specified therein other personnel of the National Museum who should also be granted emergency allowance, and to amend Section 2 of the aforesaid Decree for the purpose of strengthening the funding provision of this measure;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby order and decrees:

SECTION 1. Section of Presidential Decree No. 1578 is hereby amended to include within its coverage the following personnel of the National Museum, in addition to the personnel authorized to receive monthly inventive allowances:

Administrative Officer (Chief of Division)	P1,000.00
Positions above Range 55	600.00
Positions from R-51 to R-55	500.00
Positions from R-46 to R 50	400.00
Positions from R-41 to R-45	300.00
Positions from R-35 to R-40	200.00
Emergency Employees	100.00

SEC. 2. The sum of fifty-four thousand four hundred pesos a month which shall be taken from any savings of the National Museum for Calendar Year 1980 is hereby authorized to be paid for the incentives granted to the above additional personnel. General Appropriation Act.

PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO

PRESIDENTIAL DECREE 1578 GRANTING EMERGENCY ALLOWANCE FOR CERTAIN PERSONNEL OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM AND PROVIDING FUNDS THERFORE.

Presidential Decree 1578, dated 11 June, 1978 entitled GRANTING EMERGENCY ALLOWANCES FOR CERTAIN PERSONNEL OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM AND PROVIDING FUNDS THEREFORE, is hereby modified to include the following provisions:

Under Section, 1 in the listing of personnel, the following positions are hereby included:

		No. of Positions	Incentive Allowances	Total Amount
Administrative Officer (Chief of Division)		1	P1,000.00	P1,000.00
Positions above Range 55		3	600.00	1,800.00
Positions	from R-51 to R-55	10	500.00	5,000.00
Positions	from R-46 to R-50	17	400.00	6,800.00
Positions	from R-41 to R-45	83	300.00	24,900.00
Positions	from R-35 to R-40	48	200.00	9,600.00
Emergency Employees		53	100.00	5,300.00 ___________
				P54,400.00 ==========

Section 2 is modified to include “Additional amount which shall be needed to implement this decree shall be taken from savings and shall be also included in the General appropriations of the National Museums.

This Decree shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 2nd day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS President of the Philippines