WHEREAS, the maximum rates of salaries fixed: for municipal policemen under Republic Act No. 160 are inadequate under present economic conditions due to the elimination of the bonus formerly received by them; and

WHEREAS, such a state of affairs is not conducive to the efficiency of the public service and may compel our guardians of law and order to commit acts detrimental thereto;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution and the Emergency Powers Law, do hereby allow the various municipal governments, should their financial conditions permit, to increase the salaries of municipal policemen to such amounts as shall not exceed the sum of their basic pay and the bonus formerly received by them: Provided, however, That no municipality shall incur any overdraft for the purpose of effecting the salary increases herein authorized.

Done in the City of Manila, this 9th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the third.


By the President:
(SGD.) TEODORO EVANGELISTA
Executive Secretary