REPUBLIC ACT NO. 461 - AN ACT APPROPRIATING AN ADDITIONAL SUM OF TWENTY MILLION PESOS FOR THE ARMED FORCES OF THE PHILIPPINES FOR THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF PEACE AND ORDER.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any in the Philippine Treasury not otherwise appropriated an additional sum of twenty million pesos for the Armed Forces of the Philippines for the campaign for the maintenance of peace and order, as hereunder specified:

1. Base pay of officers P1,106,280.00

2. Quarters allowance of officers 194,880.00

3. Subsistence allowance of officers 135,415.00

4. Base pay of enlisted men 5,960,040.00

5. Quarters allowance of enlisted men 1,026,144.00

6. Subsistence allowance of enlisted men 2,905,035.00

7. Clothing allowance of enlisted men 1,169,973.00

8. For organizational and individual equipment and supplies including operational expenses, replacement and repair of equipment 7,217,133.00

a. Ordnance P2,860,133.00

b. Engineers 1,418,000.00

c. Signal 987,000.00

d. Quartermaster 1,095,000.00

e. Medical 857,000.00

Total P7,217,133.00 ==========

9. For the intelligence and counter-intelligence work, including the payment of rewards for the capture, dead or alive, of dissident elements and for such other expenditures that may be needed in connection with the campaign against dissident elements 285,100.00

(a) Intelligence and counter-intelligence, including rewards P145,000.00

(b) Traveling expenses. 100,000.00

(c) Miscellaneous and incidental expenses 40,100.00

Total P285,100.00 =========

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Total P20,000,000.00 ===========

SEC. 2. No portion of this appropriation shall be used for the purchase of staff cars.

SEC. 3. Whenever in his judgment the public interest so requires, the President of the Philippines shall have authority to transfer any portion of the appropriations provided in this Act from one item to another for the Armed Forces of the Philippines: Provided, however, That no item shall be augmented by more than fifty per centum of the original appropriation provided in this Act for such item.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, June 8, 1950.