REPUBLIC ACT NO. 891 - 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-TWO TO JUNE THIRTIETH, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-THREE, 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 for the period from July first, nineteen hundred and fifty-two to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifty-three, for the purposes specified hereunder:

ORDINARY EXPENDITURES A.—CONGRESS OF THE PHILIPPINES

(2) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I.—Salaries and Wages

1. For other services, including transportation and additional secretarial services for the Members of the House of Representatives or expenses incurred by direction of the Speaker

P75,000.00

2. For supplementary force that may be employed at any time in the discretion of the Speaker, including additional compensation for per diems to the military and police attaches of the Speaker

P75,000.00

Total for salaries and wages

P150,000.00

II.—Sundry Expenses

1. For payment of the cash commutation of the accumulated vacation and/or sick leaves of secretarial and clerical personnel of the Members of the House of Representatives

P100,000.00

Total for sundry expenses P100,000.00 =========

Total amount available for the House of Representatives P250,000.00 =========

H-DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS IV.—Special Purposes

1. For the transportation of foreign airmail, Bureau of Posts

P1,500,000.00

Total amount available for the Department of Public Works and Communication P1,500,000.00 ==========

I.—DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IV.—Special Purposes

1. For the operation and maintenance of 3,000 additional public elementary classes including salaries of teachers, salary adjustments for 1950—1951, sundry expenses,purchase of equipment and for the purchase of textbooks, Bureau of Public Schools

P6,103,000.00

Total amount available for the Department of Education P6,103,000.00 ==========

L.—Department op Health II.—Sundry Expenses

1. Consumption of supplies and materials, Bureau of Hospitals

P230,000.00

North General Hospital

P100,000.00

National Orthopedic Hospital

100,000.00

National Indigent Children's Hospital

30,000.00

P230,000.00 =========

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Total amount available for the Department of Health

P230,000.00 ==========

Total amount available for Ordinary Expenditures

P8,083,900.00 ==========

EXTRAORDINARY EXPENDITURES K.—Department of National Defense Special Purpose

1. For payment of family subsistence allowance to officers and enlisted men of the Armed Forces of the Philippines assigned to overseas duty, authorized in Republic Act No. 815

P1,500,000.00

Total amount available for the Department of National Defense

P1,500,000.00 ==========

Total amount available for Extraordinary Expenditures P1,500,000.00 ==========

GRAND TOTAL OF THE APPROPRIATIONS AUTHORIZED IN THIS ACT: NINE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED EIGHTY-THREEE THOUSAND, NINE HUNDRED PESOS

P9,583,900.00 ===========

SEC. 2. The provisions of Republic Act Numbered Eight hundred and sixteen to the contrary notwithstanding, any savings from the appropriations authorized in the said Act for the Department of Justice and the Department of National Defense may be used to cover the following additional expenses of said departments, respectively, not exceeding the amounts specified hereunder:

F.—Department of Justice II.—Sundry Expenses

1. Traveling expenses of personnel, Court of Industrial Relations

P10,000.00

2. Postal, telegraph, telephone, cable and radio service, Bureau of Immigration

3,700.00

3. Illumination and power service, Bureau of Immigration

2,500.00

4. Rental of buildings and grounds. Bureau of Immigration

100.00

5. Consumption of supplies and materials, Bureau of Immigration

14,000.00

6. Traveling expenses of persons not government employees, including subsistence of alien detainees which in no case shall exceed Pl.50 per day, Bureau of Immigration

27,500.00

7. Maintenance and repair of equipment, Bureau of Immigration

460.00

8. Other services, Bureau of Immigration

1,740.00

Total for sundry expenses

P60,000.00 =========

Total amount available for the Department of Justice

P60,000.00 =========

K.—Department of National Defense ARMED FORCES OF THE PHILIPPINES I.—Salaries and Wages

1. For the implementation of the Minimum Wage Law

P1,369,005.00

General Headquarters

P110,000.00

Philippine Constabulary

160,000.00

Philippine Army

930,005.00

Philippine Air Force

82,000.00

Philippine Navy

87,000.00

P1,369,005.00 ===========

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Total amount available for the Department of national Defense

P1,369,005.00 ==========

SEC. 3. The special and general provisions of Republic Act Numbered Eight hundred and sixteen are hereby made applicable to the appropriations provided in this Act: Provided , That no portion of the different items of the appropriations contained in this Act shall be transferred to any other item.

SEC. 4. Effective date .—This Act shall take effect as of July first, nineteen hundred and fifty-two.

Approved, June 19, 1953.