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By virtue of the powers vested in me be the Constitution and pursuant to the provisions of the Emergency Powers Law, I, Sergio Osmeña, President of the Philippines, do hereby set aside the following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary out of any funds of the Government of Commonwealth of the Philippines not otherwise appropriated, for the operation of said Government now temporarily established in Washington D.C., United States of America, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and forty-five:

A. OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

I. SALARIES AND WAGES
1.	The President of the Philippines (as provided in the Constitution)	$15,000.00
2.	One Secretary to the President with the of Secretary of Department	8,400.00
3.	One Assistant Secretary to the President	5,000.00
4.	One Private Secretary	3,840.00
5.	One Assistant Secretary	1,800.00
6.	One Secretary	2,600.00
7.	One clerk-stenographer	2,400.00
8.	One assistant in health	4,000.00
9.	One senior assistant	2,400.00
10.	One clerk	1,800.00
11.	One administrative and disbursing officer	5,000.00
12.	One assistant administrative officer	3,600.00
13.	One property and records clerk	3,000.00
14.	One stamp agent	2,400.00
15.	Two accounts clerks at $2,400 each	4,800.00
16.	One telephone operator-clerk	1,800.00
17.	One caretaker-messenger 1617 Massachusetts Ave.	1,800.00
18.	One caretaker-messenger 1631 Massachusetts Ave.	1,440.00
19.	One messenger	1,620.00
20.	One messenger	1,440.00
21.	Miscellaneous and emergency employees, including charwomen and charmen	10,000.00
22.	Household personel including chauffeurs	12,000.00
23.	One medical aide	3,600.00
24.	One Manager of the Tobacco Corporation acting as aide-de-camp to the President	6,000.00
25.	Additional compensation of $5 per diem to the aide-de-camp to the President, Section 62 of the Revised Administrative Code	3,660.00 ______________
	Total	$109,400.00
II. SUNDRY EXPENSES
1.	Sundry expenses, including travelling expenses, postal, telegraph, and othercommunication service; supplies and materials; illumination and power services; rental and repairs of buildings; printing of reports and documents; and other services	$125,000.00
III. FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT
1.	Purchase of furniture and equipment	$20,000.00
IV. GENERAL AND SPECIAL PURPOSES
1.	For a fund to be expended at the discretion of the President (as provide by law enacted by the Philippines Legislature)	$15,000.00
2.	For the salary of one disbursing officer in Washington, D. C.	2,010.00
3.	For salaries of expert and technical personnel whom the President	125,000.00
4.	Salaries and allowances, transportation and other expenses of pensions and fellows of the United States	30,000.00
5.	For salaries of members, sundry expenses and furniture and equipment Of the Filipino Rehabilitation Commission, Public Law 381, 78 th Congress Approved June 29, 1944	50,000.00
6.	For relief loans to Filipinos stranded in the United States on account of the war as may be authorized by the President	$244,010.00 _________________
	Total	$244,010.00
SUMMARY
I.	Total Salaries and Wages	$109,400.00
II.	Total for Sundry Expenses	125,000.00
III.	Total for General and Special Purposes	244,010.00 ________________
	Total amount available for the Office of the President	$498,410.00
B.  DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE
I.  SALARIES AND WAGES
1.	One Secretary of Department
2.	One Budget and Finance Commissioner
3.	One Secretary	2,600.00
	Total	$2,600.00
II.  SUNDRY EXPENSES
1.	Sundry expenses, including travelling expenses; postal, telegraph, and other Communication service; supplies and materials; and other services	$2,000.00
III.  FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT
1.	Purchase of furniture and equipment	$500.00
SUMMARY
I.	Total for Salaries and Wages	$2,600.00
II.	Total for Sundry Expenses	2,000.00
III.	Total for Furniture and Equipment	500.00
	Total amount available for the Department of Finance	$5,100.00
C.  DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENSE AND COMMUNICATION
I. SALARIES AND WAGES
1.	One Secretary of Department
2.	One Secretary	2,600.00
	Total	$2,600.00
II. SUNDRY EXPENSES
1.	Sundry expenses, including travelling expenses, postal, telegraph, and other communication services; supplies and material; and other services	$2,000.00
III. FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT
1.	Purchase of furniture and equipment	$500.00
IV. PHILIPPINES ARMY
1.	Base pay as per Executive Order dated March 10, 1942	$30,000.00
2.	Allowance	8,000.00
3.	Travelling expenses	10,000.00
	Total	$48,000.00
SUMMARY
I.	Total for Salaries and Wages	$2,600.00
II.	Total for Sundry Expenses	2,000.00
III.	Total  for Furniture and Equipment	500.00
IV.	Total for Philippine Army	48,000.00
	Total amount available for the Department of National Defense and Communications	$53,100.00
D. DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS
I.	SALARIES AND WAGES
1.	One Secretary of Department	$
2.	One Secretary	2,600.00
3.	One chief of research reference	5,000.00
4.	One clerk-stenographer	2,100.00
5.	One librarian	3,000.00
6.	One research assistant	2,640.00
7.	One research assistant	2,400.00
8.	One writer-researcher	4,000.00
9.	One clerk-stenographer	1,800.00
10.	One public relations officer	3,600.00
11.	One public relations and editorial assistant	3,200.00
12.	One press relations assistant	3,000.00
13.	One clerk-stenographer	1,800.00
14.	One analyst	3,900.00
15.	One junior analyst	3,000.00
16.	One clerk-stenographer	1,800.00
17.	One clerk-messenger	1,800.00
	Total	$45,640.00
II.  SUNDRY EXPENSES
1.	Sundry expenses, including postal, telegraph, travelling expenses, and other communication service; supplies and materials; printing of reports and documents, including and publication of magazines and other services	$30,000.00
III.  FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT
1.	Purchase of furniture and equipment	$2,000.00
VI. ENTERTAINMENT
1.	Expenses for entertainment	$1,200.00
SUMMARY
I.	Total for Salaries and Wages	$45,640.00
II.	Total for Sundry Expenses	30,000.00
III.	Total for Furniture and Equipment	2,000.00
IV.	Total for Entertainment	1,200.00
	Total amount available for the Department of Information and Public Relation	$78,840.00
E. DEPARMENT OF JUSTICE, LABOR AND WELFARE
1.	Secretary of Department	$8,400.00
2.	One secretary	2,600.00
3.	One attorney	3,000.00
4.	One researcher	3,200.00
	Total	$17,200.00
II. SUNRY EXPENSES
1.	Sundry expenses, including travelling expenses; postal, telegraph, and other communication service; supplies and materials; and other services	$2,000.00
III.	FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT
1.	Purchase of furniture and equipment	$500.00
SUMMARY
I.	Total for Salaries and Wages	$17,200.00
II.	Total for Sundry Expenses	2,000.00
III.	Total for Furniture and Equipment	500.00
	Total amount available for Department of Justice, Labor and Welfare	$19,700.00
F. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE
1.	Secretary of Department	$
2.	One secretary	2,600.00
	Total	$2,600.00
II. SUNDRY EXPENSES
1.	Sundry expenses, including travelling expenses; postal, telegraph, and other communication service; supplies and materials; and other services	$2,000.00
III. FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT
1.	Purchase of furniture and equipment	$500.00
SUMMARY
I.	Total for Salaries and Wages	$2,600.00
II.	Total for Sundry Expenses	2,000.00
III.	Total for Furniture and Equipment	500.00
	Total amount available for the Department of Agriculture and Commerce	$5,100.00
G. OFFICE OF THE RESIDENT COMMISSIONER
I. SALRIES AND WAGES
1.	The Resident Commissioner (as provided by law enacted by the Philippines Legislature)	$10,000.00
2.	One Secretary	2,600.00
3.	One Congressional Secretary	3,000.00
4.	One legal assistant	5,000.00
5.	One chief, Nationals Division	6,000.00
6.	One senior assistant	3,600.00
7.	One assistant	2,700.00
8.	One clerk-stenographer	2,400.00
9.	One clerk-stenographer	1,800.00
	Total	$37,100.00
II. SUNDAY EXPENSES
1.	Allowance to the Resident Commissioner in lieu of transportation expenses (as provided by the Philippines legislature)	$3,000.00
2.	Allowance to the resident Commissioner in lieu of representation expenses (as provided by the Philippine Legislation)	5,000.00
3.	Rental of the official residence of the Resident Commissioner (as provided by the Philippines Legislation)	6,000.00
4.	Travelling expenses, supplies, materials, illumination, postal, telegraph, other communication service and miscellaneous	10,000.00
	Total	$24,000.00
III. FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT
1.	Purchase of furniture and equipment	$1,000.00
IV.	SPECIAL PURPOSES
1.	for salaries of personnel, sundry expenses and purchase of equipment for the offices of representatives of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines in New York and other cities	$50,000.00
SUMMARY
l.	Total for Salaries and Wages	$37,100.00
II.	Total for Sundry Expenses	24,000.00
III.	Total for Furniture and  Equipment	1,000.00
IV.	Total for Special Purposes	50,000.00
	Total amount available for the Office of the Resident Commissioner	$112,100.00
H. GENERAL AUDITING OFFICE
1. SALARIES AND WAGES
1.	The Auditor General (as provided in the Constitution)	$7,500.00
2.	One technical assistant to the Auditor General	3,750.00
3.	One assistant auditor	5,000.00
4.	One secretary	2,600.00
	Total	$18,850.00
II. SUNDRY EXPENSES
1.	Sundry expenses, including travelling expenses; Postal , telegraph and other communication service; supplies and materials and other services	$17,000.00
III.   FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT
1.	Purchase of furniture and equipment	$500.00
SUMMARY
I.	Total for salaries and wages	$18,850.00
II.	Total for Sundry expenses	17,000.00
III.	Total for Furniture and Equipment	500.00
	Total amount available for the General Auditing Office	$36,350.00
	Total for all Department and Offices	$808,700.00
CONTINGENT FUND
	For covering expenses in the Office of the Vice- President for the period July 1 to August
1.	1944 and deficits in the appropriations provided in this Executive Order and for such other expenses which the President may authorize	$91,300.00
	Grand total of the appropriation authorized in this Executive Order: Nine hundred thousand dollars	$900,000.00

Any deficit in the appropriations herein authorized may be covered from any unexpended balance of any other appropriation provided in this Executive Order with the approval of the President.

Done at the City of Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, this thirty-first day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-four, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the ninth.

	(SGD.) SERGIO OSMEÑA
	President of the Philippines