H. No. 1464 / 47 OG No. 2, 592 (February, 1951)

[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 591, January 19, 1951 ]

AN ACT INCREASING THE ARMED FORCES OF THE PHILIPPINES AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Philippine Treasury not otherwise appropriated an additional sum of twenty-five million eight hundred and forty-seven thousand five hundred eighty pesos for the Armed Forces of the Philippines for the organization, equipping, maintenance and operation of ten additional battalion combat teams of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, as hereunder specified:

	SALARIES AND WAGES
1.	Base and longevity pay of officers	P621,800.00
2.	Quarters allowance of officers	101,360.00
3.	Subsistence allowance of officers at the rate of P1 each per day	73,300.00
4.	Base pay of enlisted men	3,126,640.00
5.	Quarters allowance of enlisted men	537,500.00
6.	Subsistence allowance of enlisted men at the rate of P1 each per day	1,572,470.00
7.	Clothing allowance of enlisted men.	1,152,920.00
		Total for salaries and wages	P7,185,990.00
	SUNDRY EXPENSES
8.	Equipment and supplies, including maintenance and operational cost	P14,802,090.00
(a)	Quartermaster	Pl,455,000.00
(b)	Signal corps	812,500.00
(c)	Medical service	158,150.00
(d)	Corps of engineers	376,440.00
(e)	Weapons and armaments; combat vehicles and motor transport equipment; ammunition; supplies and maintenance parts	12,000,000.00
		Total	P14,802,090.00
9.	Housing facilities and maintenance for officers and enlisted men on actual field operations	963,000.00
10.	Expenses for hospitalization of personnel	101,500.00
11.	Intelligence and counter-intelligence, including miscellaneous and contingent expenses	1,000,000.00
		Total for sundry expenses	P16,866,590.00
	SPECIAL PURPOSE
12.	Additional subsistence of P1 per day each for officers and enlisted men on actual field operations	P1,795,000.00
		Total for special purpose. Pl,795,000.00
	SUMMARY
	Total for salaries and wages	P7,185,990.00
	Total for sundry expenses	16,866,590.00
	Total for special purpose	1,795,000.00
	Total	P25,847,580.00

SEC. 2. No portion of the appropriations provided this Act shall be used for the purchase of staff cars, for the payment of any expenses for, or of the salary of, any officer or member of the Armed Forces who has been Retailed to any office or employment or assigned to duties outside of the Department of National Defense.SEC. 3. Any balance from said appropriations may be used to defray expenses for the subsistence, hospitalization, and rehabilitation of captured or surrendered dissidents only.SEC. 4. The appropriations authorized in this Act for equipment and supplies, or so much thereof remaining unexpended, shall not be available for expenditure except for purposes mentioned in section three hereof, whenever the equipment and supplies for which said appropriations are intended are obtainable under the provisions of the military assistance pact between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Government of the United States.SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.Approved, January 19, 1951.

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