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[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. (UNNUMBERED), March 10, 1942 ]

FIXING THE SALARIES OF THE OFFICERS AND ENLISTED MEN OF THE PHILIPPINE ARMY

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 90 of the National Defense Act and of the Emergency Powers Law, I, Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippines, do hereby prescribe the following schedule of salary rates and quarters allowance for officers of the Philippine Army, effective March 15, 1942, and extending for the duration of the war and six months thereafter unless sooner terminated by competent authority:

	ANNUAL PAY	MONTHLY QUARTERS ALLOWANCE
Major General	P16,000	P200
Brigadier General	12,000	200
Colonel	8,000	200
Lieutenant Colonel	7,000	200
Major	6,000	160
Captain	4,800	140
First Lieutenant	4,000	100
Second Lieutenant	3,000	80
Third Lieutenant	2,400	60

During the period that the rates of pay herein prescribed are effective there shall not be paid to any officer an increase of pay by reason of length of service, commonly called longevity pay.

During the period that the rates of pay herein prescribed are effective there shall not be paid to any officer an increase of pay for duty requiring regular and frequent aerial flights.

ENLISTED MEN, LINE AND MEDICAL SERVICE

	Monthly Pay	Monthly Quarters Allowance
Master Sergeant	P86	P16
Technical Sergeant and First Sergeant	70	16
Staff Sergeant	60	16
Sergeant	51	12
Corporal	37	12
Private First Class	22	8
Private	18	8

ENLISTED MEN, AIR CORPS

	Monthly Pay	Monthly Quarters Allowance
Master Sergeant	P86	P16
Technical Sergeant	80	16
Staff Sergeant	75	16
First Sergeant	60	16
Sergeant	51	12
Corporal	37	12
Private First Class	22	8
Private	18	8

Provided that no man shall suffer a reduction in pay by reason of this Executive Order.
Done at the seat of Government in the Field, this tenth day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen Hundred and Forty Two, and the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the seventh.

(Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines