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data and information as it may deem necessary. Such report shall be submitted not later than thirty days after the close of the fiscal year to which it pertains.

SEC. 8. Repealing clause.—All provisions of Act Numbered Twenty-nine hundred and thirty-five and other general appropriation acts which were declared permanent legislation are repealed.

SEC. 9. Effective date.-This Act shall take effect on January first, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight. Approved, December 17, 1937.

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FIRST NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

Fifth Special Session

[COMMONWEALTH ACT No. 374]

B. No. 3939

AN ACT TO AMEND PARAGRAPH (4), GENERAL PROVISIONS, SECTION SEVEN OF COMMONWEALTH ACT NUMBERED TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIX, ENTITLED "AN ACT PRESCRIBING THE FORM OF THE BUDGET AND REGULATING THE EXPENDITURE OF AUTHORIZED APPRO

PRIATIONS."

Be it enacted by the National Assembly of the Philippines:

SECTION 1. Paragraph (4), General Provisions, section seven of Commonwealth Act Numbered Two hundred and forty-six, entitled "An Act prescribing the form of the Budget and regulating the expenditure of authorized appropriations," is amended so as to read as follows:

“(4) Allotment of lump-sum appropriation and special and other funds; plantilla of personnel.-The provisions of this Act or any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, expenditures from lump-sum appropriations authorized for any executive department in any annual General Appropriation Act or other Act and from all special, bond, trust, and other funds shall be made in accordance with a budget to be approved by the President, which shall include the plantilla of personnel, showing the number of each kind of positions, the designations, the salary proposed for the fiscal year for which the appropriation is intended and the salary actually received. This provision shall be applicable to all revolving funds, receipts which are automatically made available for expenditure for certain specific purposes, aids and donations for carrying out certain activities, or deposits made to cover the cost of special services to be

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rendered to private parties. Unless otherwise expressly provided by law, when any Board, Head of Department, Chief of Bureau or Office, or any other official, is authorized to appropriate, allot, distribute or spend any lump-sum appropriation or special, bond, trust, and other funds, such authority shall be subject to the provisions of this paragraph."

"Except when stipulated otherwise as a condition for the expenditure of an aid or donation, and in the case of officers and employees receiving higher rates at the time of the approval of this Act, no officer or employee whose salary, not being fixed by law, is paid from any lump-sum appropriation or from any special, bond, trust, revolving, or other fund, shall receive a compensation of more than twenty pesos per day or more than five hundred pesos per month. This limitation shall not apply to the appropriations for 'expert and technical personnel' under the Office of the President and the various executive departments. "In the case of any lump-sum appropriation for salaries and wages of temporary laborers and employees provided in any General Appropriation Act or other Act, the expenditure of such appropriation shall be limited to the employment of laborers paid by the month, by the day, or by the hour, and of emergency employees other than laborers, who, except those authorized for the National Assembly, the office of the President, the Bureau of Health, the craftsmen, helpers, and other employees of the Bureau of Printing, the justices of the peace, the officers and employees of the Bureau of Public Works whose salaries and wages are payable from appropriations for projects authorized in any act, and the officers and employees of the Bureau of Quarantine Service, shall, in no case, be paid a salary in excess of forty pesos per month, nor shall their employment continue for more than six months."

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect as of January first, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight.

Approved, August 23, 1938.

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SECOND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

First Session

[COMMONWEALTH ACT No. 435]

B. No. 1089

AN ACT TO ADD ANOTHER SUBSECTION TO SECTION SEVEN OF COMMONWEALTH ACT NUMBERED TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIX COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE "BUDGET ACT", PROVIDING FOR THE TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT OF SUBSTITUTE OFFICERS OR MEMBERS OF THE CREW OF GOVERNMENT VESSELS.

Be it enacted by the National Assembly of the Philippines: SECTION 1. A subsection to be numbered thirty-four is added to section seven of Commonwealth Act Numbered Two hundred and forty-six, commonly known as the "Budget Act," to read as follows:

(34) Temporary employment of substitute officers in government vessels.--Whenever an officer or member of the crew of any government vessel is absent on leave, the Department Head may employ, upon the recommendation of the director of the Bureau or office concerned, a temporary substitute if the need of the service so requires. The salary of the substitute officer or member of the crew shall be paid from the savings in the appropriation for salaries and wages for the Bureau or office concerned.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved, May 31, 1939.

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SECOND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

Second Special Session

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[COMMONWEALTH ACT No. 500]

B. No. 1211.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE PRESIDENT, IN VIEW OF THE EXISTENCE OF A STATE OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY, TO DECREASE EXPENDITURES OF THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT THROUGH THE SUSPENSION OR ABANDONMENT OF SERVICES, ACTIVITIES, OR OPERATIONS OF NO IMMEDIATE NECESSITY.

Be it enacted by the National Assembly of the Philippines: SECTION 1. The decrease in customs revenues as a result cf the existing state of war among some nations of the world has created a national emergency which requires the decrease in the expenditures of the Government by the suspension or abandonment of services, activities, or operations of no immediate necessity.

SEC. 2. In addition to the authority vested in the President of the Philippines under section 7-I, subsection (2), of Commonwealth Act Numbered Two hundred and fortysix, he is further empowered to reduce the expenditures of the Executive Department of the National Government by the suspension or abandonment of services, activities, or operations of no immediate necessity: Provided, That the authority herein given shall be exercised only when the National Assembly is not in session, and any action taken thereunder shall be valid and subsisting until the National Assembly provides otherwise.

SEC. 3. The President shall report to the National Assembly within the first ten days of its next regular session. any action taken under the authority herein granted.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved, September 30, 1939.

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