For the purpose of effecting greater economy in the expenditure of public funds and in order to establish a uniform rate of meal allowance that may be granted to officers and employees of the National Government in the City of Manila who may be required by the exigencies of the service to render overtime service, it is hereby ordered that upon the rendition of said overtime service such officers and employees may be granted a meal allowance of fifty centavos for each meal, subject to the existing accounting and auditing rules and regulations governing overtime work.

The rate herein fixed shall take effect immediately.

Done at the City of Manila, this 27th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-one, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the sixth.


By the President:

(Sgd.) JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President