REPUBLIC ACT NO. 628 - 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

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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.