REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1577 - AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF SIXTY THREE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED SEVENTY-TWO PESOS TO ENABLE THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINES TO MEET ITS COMMITMENTS WITH THE SOUTH EAST ASIA TREATY ORGANIZATION.

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

SECTION 1. The following sums are appropriated out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the period from July first, nineteen hundred fifty-six to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred fifty-seven, for the purposes specified hereunder:euben

1.

For Philippine contribution to the SEATO Secretariat .............................................

P42,512.00

2.

For the SEATO Division, Home Office, Department of Foreign Affairs:

( a ) One Chief of Division, Foreign Affairs Officer Class II ............................... 7,200.00

( b ) One Economist ......................................................................................... 6,000.00

( c ) One Political and Cultural Assistant ........................................................... 5,100.00

( d ) One Stenographer-clerk ........................................................................... 2,760.00

TOTAL

P63,572.00

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, June 16, 1956, except Item 2, for the SEATO Division, Home Office, Department of Foreign Affairs.