LETTER OF INSTRUCTION NO. 548, June 02, 1977

[ LETTER OF INSTRUCTION NO. 548, June 02, 1977 ]

REVERSION OF CERTAIN APPROPRIATIONS

TO: The Commissioner of the Budget The Chairman, Commission on Audit

Pursuant to the provisions of Presidential Decree No. 999 authorizing the reversion of dormant or unnecessary appropriations and in order to more fully allow the rational evaluation of outstanding appropriations, it is hereby directed that (1) all remaining balances of appropriations included in the attached list be reverted to the unappropriated surplus of the General Fund, effective July 1, 1977 and (2) the Commissioner of the Budget include in the yearly budgetary proposals amounts which may otherwise need to be funded by reverted appropriations.

Done in the City of Manila, this 2nd day of June, in the year of Our Lord nineteen hundred and seventy-seven.

(Sdg.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS President of the Philippines

LIST OF CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS RECOMMENDED FOR REVERSION, AS OF MARCH 31, 1977

Department/Bureau/Office

RA/PD NO. Purpose Balance of Appropriations

Department of Agrarian Reform —

1. Office of the Secretary RA 1400 Defining Land Tenure Policy and providing for an instrumentality to carry out the policy (Land Reform Act of 1955)

P65,166,000

Department of Agriculture —

1. Office of the Secretary PD 435 Expanding the guarantee coverage of the Agricultural Guarantee Fund created under R.A. No. 6390, as amended, and appropriating additional funds therefor

40,000,000

2. Bureau of Agricultural Economics PD 503 PD 733 For the construction of city and provincial offices data collection centers

175,000

210,000

3. Bureau of Animal Industry RA 4041 For the development of the dairy industry

3,000,000

RA 4069 The Cattle Dispersal Act of 1964 providing appropriation therefor

33,000,000

Visayas State College of Agriculture RA 700 For the construction of permanent improvements

1,863,000

Department of Justice —

1. Bureau of Prisons RA 3682 Appropriating funds for the transfer of Iwahig Penal Colony and providing for the subdivision and sale of the present site thereof.

300,000

RA 1955 Making an annual appropriation of not to exceed five thousand pesos from the income derived from the operation of. the Bureau of Prison—Prison Industries and salvage warehouse revolving fund for pecuniary aid to prisoners killed or injured in the performance of duty

5,000

2. Land Registration Commission RA 6465 Establishing the office of Register of Deeds of Occidental Mindoro

100,000

RA 6467 Creation of a branch office of Register of Deeds of Occidental Mindoro

14,000

3. Office of the Solicitor General PD 968 For the creation of a Probation Administration

6,358,073

Department of Social Services and Development

1. Office of the Secretary RA 6399 For compensation for death & injuries sustained in public demonstration, rally, protest march, assembly or mass action.

P272,000

RA 6050 For the construction of a sheltered workshop and guidance clinic

55,000

PD 503 For the construction of regional provincial and city offices

700,000

PD 753 For the construction of regional, provincial and city offices

1,610,000

Judicial Department

1. Supreme Court of the Philippines PD 181 Constituting the Integrated Bar of the Philippines.

500,000

PD 723 Creation of Additional Court Salas in certain cities, municipalities

1,600,000

PD 828 Creation of the Office of the Court Administrator under the Supreme Court

2,000,000

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Total P157,328,073