H. No. 2004 / 47 OG No. 7, 3326 (July, 1951)

[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 628, June 05, 1951 ]

AN ACT APPROPRIATING ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR THE OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES DURING THE PERIOD FROM JULY FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY TO JUNE THIRTIETH, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-ONE AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

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

SECTION 1. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are appropriated out of any funds in the Philippine Treasury not otherwise appropriated, during the period from July first, nineteen hundred and fifty to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, for the purposes specified hereunder:

ORDINARY EXPENDITURES
A.—CONGRESS OF THE PHILIPPINES

2. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

1. House Electoral Tribunal

SUNDRY EXPENSES

1.	Traveling expenses of the Tribunal including laborers to be used for hauling and handling ballot boxes and other election matters	P30,000.00
	Total for sundry expenses	P30,000.00
	Total for the House Electoral Tribunal	P30,000'.00
F.-— Department of Justice
II.—SUNDRY EXPENSES
1.	Additional appropriation for consumption of supplies and materials, for the Bureau of Prisons	P393.000.00
2.	Additional appropriation for the Bu­ reau of Immigration, as follows:
	a.	Freight, express and delivery service	P850.00
	b.	Postal, telegraph, telephone and cable service	2,500.00
	c.	Illumination and power service	500.00
	d.	Consumption of supplies and materials	6,000.00
	e.	Traveling expenses of persons not government employees, including subsistence and lodging of detainees	23,000.00	32,850.00
L.— Department of Health
II.—SUNDRY EXPENSES
1.	Additional appropriation for consumption of supplies and materials, including ubsistence of patients confined in hospitals and leprosaria under the Bureau of Hospitals	P300,000.00
	Total for the Department of Health	P300,000.00
	Total for Ordinary Expenditures	P755,850.00
EXTRAORDINARY EXPENDITURES
K.— Department of National Defense
SPECIAL PURPOSES
1.	Additional appropriations for expenses of the Philippine Veterans Board in carrying out the purposes of Republic Act No. 65, providing for a Bill of Rights for officers and enlisted men of the Philippine Army and of recognized or deserving guerrilla organizations, and veterans of the Philippine Revolutions, etc	P10,000,000.00
SPECIAL EXPENSES
	a.	Payment of pensions to veterans, widows, minor children and indigent parents of deceased veterans	P7,000,000.00
	b.	Payment of educational benefits	P2,950,000.00
	c.	Emergency employees	P50,000.00
		Total	P10,000,000.00
2.	For expenses to cover the cost and transportation charges of rice and soap sent to Korea for consumption and use of the members of the United Nations Armed Forces as contribution of the Philippine Government to the United Nations	2,480,000.00
	Total for the Department of National Defense	P12,480,000.00
	Total for Extraordinary Expenditures	P12,480,000.00
	Total for Ordinary and Extraordinary Expenditures	P13,235,850.00
SPECIAL PROVISION
1.	The provisions of Republic Act No. 573, notwithstanding, any savings in the appropriations authorized in the said Act may be used to pay the cost and transportation charges of commodities sent to Korea for consumption of the United Nations Armed Forces as contribution of the Philippine Government to the United Nations.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect as of July first, nineteen hundred and fifty.

Approved, June 5, 1951.

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