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[ Act No. 3431, August 28, 1928 ]

AN ACT AUTHORIZING A STANDING APPROPRIATION OF TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND PESOS PER ANNUM FOR TECHNICAL PERSONNEL AND CIVILIAN ASSISTANTS IN THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

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. A standing appropriation of two hundred and fifty thousand pesos per annum is hereby made out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the payment of salaries, travel and other official expenses of such technical personnel and civilian assistants, as the Governor-General, or the Secretary of War on the recommendation of the Governor-General, may see fit to employ or call into service on contracts calling for whole time or part time service: Provided, That the amount herein  appropriated cannot be expended to increase the salary of  any officer or employee of the Government of the Philippine Islands, whose salary has been provided for in the Appropriation Act. In case of epidemic, public calamity, or other grave emergency, the amount thus appropriated may also be made available by the Governor-General for the payment of salaries, travel and other official expenses of such emergency personnel as may be then required, as well as of such other expenditures in connection with said purposes that in his judgment may be necessary.

SEC. 2. Any unexpended balance at the end of each year shall revert to the unappropriated general funds in the Insular Treasury.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, August 8, 1928.
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