[ Act No. 3799, December 04, 1930 ]

AN ACT GRANTING CERTAIN COMPENSATION TO THE WIFE OR LEGITIMATE CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF ANY SENATOR OR REPRESENTATIVE WHO DIES DURING HIS TERM OF OFFICE, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:SECTION 1. Upon the death of any member of the Senate or House of Representatives during his term of office, his widow or, in default thereof, his legitimate children under the age of twenty-one years shall be paid a compensation equivalent to the total of one year's salary of such deceased Senator or Representative, upon presentation of proof of his death.SEC. 2. The sum of twenty-one thousand pesos is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be placed at the disposal of the Senate or House of Representatives for the payment of the compensation herein authorized to the widow or children of any Senator or Representative who may have died during the Eighth Legislature. Hereafter, the sums necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act shall be provided in the annual appropriation acts.SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its approval.Approved, December 4, 1930.

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