H. No. 3280 / 49 OG No. 6, 2146 (June, 1953)
SEC. 2. Within sixty clays from the approval of this Act, the extent of the damages, as far as Items A and F above are concerned, suffered in the provinces and cities visited by typhoons, floods, droughts, earthquakes and volcanic action during the calendar years nineteen hundred and fifty-one and nineteen hundred and fifty-two shall be ascertained by a Committee to be composed of the Provincial Governor, as Chairman, and the Provincial Treasurer, Division Superintendent of Schools, District Health Officer and District Engineer, as members; and in case of funds alloted to a city, by a Committee composed of the City Mayor, as Chairman and the City Treasurer, City Superintendent of Schools, City Health Officer and City Engineer, as members who shall submit their report to the President to serve as guide in the allocation of the funds to the stricken areas in proportion to the damages suffered by each province or city.
A. SOCIAL WELFARE 1. For the purchase of building materials, food supplies, clothing and other relief goods, including the expenses for the procurement and distribution of the same: Provided, That no part of this amount shall be used for salaries and wages P2,000,000.00 2. For aid to the Philippine National Red Cross including the acquisition of blood Plasma 375,000.00 Total for Social WelfareP2,375,000.00
============ B. FINANCE 1. For aid to provinces, chartered cities and municipalities whose revenue collections have been greatly reduced due to havoc and destruction wrought by typhoons, floods, droughts, earthquakes and volcanic action during the calendar years nineteen hundred and fifty-one and nineteen hundred and fifty- two P1,500,000.00 C. AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES 1. For the purchase of seeds and other planting materials, as well as the cost of their propagation and distribution necessitated by the occurrence of typhoons, floods, droughts, earthquakes and volcanic action during the calendar years nineteen hundred and fifty-one and nineteen hundred and fifty-two: Provided, That no part of this amount shall be used for salaries and wages P750,000.00 D. PUBLIC WORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS
1. For the replacement of scales, mail boxes, galvanized iron boxes, steel safes, distributing cases, post-office boxes, rotary locks, bag racks and other damaged post-office equipment P5,650.002. For the erection of, and stringing wires on, blown-down or damaged poles 50,350.00 Total for Public Works and Communications P56,000.00 ======== B. HEALTH 1. For the purchase of medicines and medical supplies, including first aid equipment, to replace damaged ones, and to provide adequate facilities for those who suffered injuries or contracted illness
P40,000.00 2. For aid for the operation and maintenance of hospitals in various provinces, cities and municipalities in areas stricken by typhoons, floods, earthquakes and volcanic action during the calendar years nineteen hundred and fifty-one and nineteen hundred and fifty-two where local funds are insufficient, including emergency hospitals, maternity and children hospitals, puericulture centers, charity clinics and public dispensaries 2,000,000 00 3. For the purchase of hospital supplies and materials to replace those damaged or destroyed by typhoons, floods, earthquakes and volcanic action during the calendar years nineteen hundred and fifty-one and nineteen hundred and fifty-two 150,000.00 Total for Health P2,190,000.00 ================ F. EDUCATION 1. For rentals of buildings and other necessary expenses for the reopening of classes which were suspended as a consequence of typhoons, floods, earthquakes and volcanic action during the calendar years nineteen hundred
and fifty-one and nineteen hundred and fifty-two and for reconstruction of most urgent school buildings destroyed: Provided, That out of this appropriation, an amount not exceeding two million two hundred and fifty thousand pesos shall be alloted for the calendar year nineteen hundred and fifty-one P6,250,000.00.GRAND TOTAL OF THE APPROPRIATIONS
AUTHORIZED IN THIS ACT:THIRTEEN
MILLLION ONE HUNDRED AND
TWENTY-ONE THOUSAND PESOS P13,121,000.00 =============