REPUBLIC ACT NO. 970 - AN ACT GRANTING GRATUITY TO THE WIDOW OR LEGITIMATE CHILDREN OF THE LATE JUDGE CLAUDIO SANDOVAL AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR.

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

SECTION 1. In consideration of the highly meritorious services rendered by the late Claudio Sandoval, Judge of the Court of First Instance of Laguna at the time of his death on September seventeen, nineteen hundred and forty-five, who died without receiving any benefit from any retirement or pension law, his widow or, in her default, his legitimate children, shall be paid a gratuity in the amount of ten thousand pesos, equivalent to his salary for one year as Judge of the Court of First Instance.

SEC. 2. The sum of ten thousand pesos is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry out the purposes of this Act.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, June 20, 1953.