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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 inauguration of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines prior to the termination of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirty-five, all balances of the appropriations authorized by Act Numbered Forty-one hundred and eighty-seven and other Acts shall immediately and automatically continue to be available for expenditure in accordance with said Acts for the unexpired portion of the said fiscal year, with the following modifications

1. All balances of appropriations for the Philippine Senate and House of Representatives shall immediately and automatically become available for expenditure by the National Assembly for the same purposes for which they have appropriated, until the National Assembly shall provide otherwise except that the rates of salary of the Speaker of the National Assembly and Members thereof, shall be as provided in the Constitution of the Philippines. The difference between the salary of the Speaker of the House of Representatives as provided in Act Numbered Forty-one hundred and eighty-seven and that fixed for the salary of the Speaker of the National Assembly in the said Constitution shall be paid from the balance in the appropriation for the salaries of Representatives. All the assets, liabilities, documents, files and properties of the Philippine Senate and House of Representatives shall be transferred to, and assumed by, the National Assembly for accounting and liquidation in such manner as may be prescribed by the Auditor General.
   
   
2. If a Resident Commissioner is appointed and assumes office in accordance with the provisions of paragraph five of section seven of the Act of Congress of the United States of March twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, commonly known as the Tydings-McDuffie Act, before the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirty-five, there is hereby appropriated out of the general fund in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, until such time as the National Assembly shall provide otherwise, the sum necessary to cover his salary, allowances including clerk hire necessarily employed by him in the discharge of his official duties based on the rates of salary and allowances which a Resident Commissioner is presently receiving from the United States Government.
   
   
3. The amount of thirty thousand pesos out of the thirty-six thousand pesos appropriated for the salary of the Governor-General, shall be available for the payment of the salary of the President of the Philippines and the excess appropriation shall revert to the unappropriated general fund in the Insular Treasury.
   
   
4. The salary of twenty-thousand pesos authorized for the Vice-Governor and Secretary of Public Instruction shall be reduced to fifteen thousand pesos, which shall be available for the payment of the salary of the Vice-President, and the remainder shall revert to the general unappropriated surplus in the Insular Treasury. The necessary sum is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the salary of a Secretary of the Department of Public Instruction at the rate of ten thousand two hundred pesos per annum.
   
   
5. The amount of twelve thousand pesos appropriated for the salary of the Insular Auditor, shall be available for the payment of the salary of the Auditor General.
   
   
6. The salaries of twenty-one thousand pesos for the Chief Justice and twenty thousand pesos for each Associate Justice of the Supreme Court shall automatically be reduced to sixteen thousand pesos and fifteen thousand pesos each, respectively, and the excess appropriation shall revert to the unappropriated general fund in the Insular Treasury.
   

SEC. 2. The Governor-General, before the inauguration of the Government of the Commonwealth, and the President of the Philippines, thereafter, are hereby authorized on the approval of this Act to spend out of any unexpended balance of any appropriation provided by Act Numbered Forty-one hundred and eighty-seven the necessary sum to cover the expenses in connection with the inaugural ceremonies of the Government of the Commonwealth and for such other commonwealth, purposes as may be deemed urgent and essential for the orderly operation of the said Government of the Commonwealth, during nineteen hundred and thirty-five, for which no specific appropriations are otherwise available: Provided, That the expenses in connection with the inaugural ceremonies shall not exceed the sum of twenty thousand pesos.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect upon the inauguration of the Government of the Commonwealth unless otherwise stated.

Approved, August 16, 1935, with the exception of section 2.