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SECTION 1. This Act shall be known as "General Appropriation Act for 1931." 

SEC. 2. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be respectively necessary, are hereby appropriated out  of any funds in the Insular Treasury not appropriated for  other purposes, in compensation of the service of the Philippine Government for the fiscal year ending December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, unless otherwise stated. 

See Printed Copy Volume 26 Public Laws Page 105 to 352 

SEC. 3. Any unexpended balance of the appropriations herein made for salaries and wages is hereby made available for the payment of compensation to injured employees as contemplated by Act No. 3428, any provision of existing law to the contrary notwithstanding. 

SEC. 4. Any provision of existing law to the contrary notwithstanding, no person shall be employed under contract by the Insular Government unless this be authorized by an appropriation in this Act, except those employed under Act No. 3431. 

SEC. 5. No official or employee of the Philippine Government shall be allowed to receive a salary higher than that provided for the position to which he is regularly assigned and in which he spends more than one-half of his official time, except when such assignment is specifically authorized by the Department Head concerned. 

SEC. 6. Upon recommendation of the proper Head of Department, the Governor-General is hereby authorized to order the sale of any old Government vessel which is no longer needed by the Government. The sale shall be made by the Insular Auditor at public auction or otherwise under the terms most favorable to the Government in which latter case, the sale shall not be effective until it has been approved by the Governor-General. 

SEC. 7. No appropriation for "consumption of supplies and materials" authorized in this Act shall be used for the construction of new buildings, except buildings of light materials in emergency cases. 

SEC. 8. Whenever it shall become apparent that the income of the Government for the year 1931 will be less than the amount estimated in the Budget for such year, it shall  be the duty of the Secretary of Finance to bring such fact to the attention of the Governor-General who is hereby authorized to reduce appropriations made in this Act so as to effect a saving not to exceed ten per centum of the total sum authorized herein. 

SEC. 9. Unless otherwise specifically authorized herein, no fund appropriated in this Act for traveling expenses or  in any other purposes shall be available to purchase any automobile by the method of paying for it in installments under the guise of rentals or by any other indirect method: Provided, That this provision shall not be applicable to contracts duly approved prior to November 1, 1930. 

SEC. 10. Notwithstanding the provision of section five hundred sixty-one of the Administrative Code, no officer or employee of the Government, except those employed under Act No. 3431 and those officers of the Federal Government assigned for service in the Office of the Governor-General, shall receive any allowance directly or indirectly for the use of his own automobile on official business unless such officer or employee is specifically authorized in this Act to receive such allowance. 

SEC. 11. Upon request of the proper Head of Department with the recommendation of the Secretary of Finance and approval of the Governor-General, any unexpended balances of the funds appropriated in Act Numbered Thirty-six hundred and thirty-eight may be used to cover the deficits of the several bureaus and offices in their appropriations for 1930 and prior years. This provision shall take effect upon approval hereof. 

SEC. 12. This Act shall take effect on January first, nineteen hundred and thirty-one. 

Approved, December 5, 1930.