[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 628, June 05, 1951 ]
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.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:
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, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, for the purposes specified hereunder:
ORDINARY EXPENDITURES
A.—CONGRESS OF THE PHILIPPINES SUNDRY EXPENSES
Approved, June 5, 1951.
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, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, for the purposes specified hereunder:
A.—CONGRESS OF THE PHILIPPINES
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- House Electoral Tribunal
SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect as of July first, nineteen hundred and fifty.
1. Traveling expenses of the Tribunal including laborers to be used for hauling and handling ballot boxes and other election matters P30,000.00Total for sundry expenses P30,000.00Total for the House Electoral Tribunal P30,000'.00 F.-— Department of Justice II.—SUNDRY EXPENSES1. Additional appropriation for consumption of supplies and materials, for the Bureau of PrisonsP393.000.00 2. Additional appropriation for the Bu reau of Immigration, as follows:a. Freight, express and delivery
serviceP850.00 b. Postal, telegraph, telephone
and cable service2,500.00 c. Illumination and power service 500.00 d. Consumption of supplies and
materials6,000.00 e. Traveling expenses of persons not government employees, including subsistence and lodging of detainees23,000.00 32,850.00 L.— Department of Health II.—SUNDRY EXPENSES1. Additional appropriation for consumption of supplies and materials, including ubsistence of patients confined in hospitals and leprosaria under the Bureau of Hospitals P300,000.00 Total for the Department of Health P300,000.00 Total for Ordinary Expenditures P755,850.00 EXTRAORDINARY EXPENDITURES K.— Department of National Defense SPECIAL PURPOSES1. Additional appropriations for expenses of the Philippine Veterans Board in carrying out the purposes of Republic Act No. 65, providing for a 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, etcP10,000,000.00 SPECIAL EXPENSESa. Payment of pensions to veterans, widows, minor
children and indigent parents of deceased veteransP7,000,000.00 b. Payment of educational benefits
P2,950,000.00 c. Emergency employees P50,000.00 Total P10,000,000.00 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 Nations2,480,000.00 Total for the Department of National Defense
P12,480,000.00
Total for Extraordinary Expenditures P12,480,000.00 Total for Ordinary and Extraordinary Expenditures P13,235,850.00 SPECIAL PROVISION1. 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.
Approved, June 5, 1951.