TO: | The Secretary of Foreign Affairs The Acting Commissioner of the Budget The Governor of the Central Bank |
You are hereby directed to study and to recommend on an improved mechanism for computing the salary and allowances of foreign affairs personnel on duty abroad, taking into account:
- Costs of living in the various diplomatic stations abroad.
- Standard practices of foreign diplomatic services in the denomination of the salaries/allowances of their personnel.
- Improvements in the existing formula translating peso salary costs into US dollar equivalents.
- Possible improvements in the existing system which uses consular receipts and other income as cash advance to meet the costs of offices abroad.
A report should be submitted within thirty (30) days.
Done in the City of Manila this 18th day of March, in the year of Our Lord nineteen hundred and seventy-six.
33 VITAL LEGAL DOCUMENTS, 63 (1976)