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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 25, October 31, 1936 ]

AUTHORIZING THE HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS TO RELEASE FROM THE UNEXPENDED BALANCES IN THE APPROPRIATIONS OF THE RESPECTIVE BUREAUS AND OFFICES UNDER THEM SUCH SUMS AS MAY BE NECESSARY FOR THE PAYMENT OF INCREASES IN SALARIES AND WAGES PURSUANT TO EXECUTIVE ORDERS NOS. 49 AND 50

WHEREAS, Executive Orders Numbered Forty-nine and Fifty fixed the minimum rates of salaries and wages of employees and laborers of the National Government, except those whose salaries are otherwise specifically provided by law;

WHEREAS, Commonwealth Act Numbered Thirty-seven extended the benefits of the said executive orders to employees and laborers the salaries of whose positions are fixed in the General Appropriation Act for nineteen hundred and thirty-six and other Acts, and authorizes the President of the Philippines to use such sum as may be necessary to carry Philippines to use such sum as may be necessary to carry out its purpose, not to exceed one hundred one thousand pesos, to be taken from any unexpended balance of the appropriations provided in the General Appropriation Act for nineteen hundred and thirty-six;

WHEREAS, the sum of ninety-six thousand three hundred thirty-eight pesos is needed to cover the increases of salaries and wages required by the said Act; and

WHEREAS, there exists a sufficient amount of unexpended balances in the appropriations of the different departments, bureaus, and offices of the National Government for the year nineteen hundred and thirty-six to cover the said sum;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, MANUEL L. QUEZON, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution and the existing laws, hereby authorize the Heads of Departments to release from the unexpended balances in the appropriations of the bureaus and offices of their respective departments for the year nineteen hundred and thirty-six, such sums as may be necessary for the payment of the increases of the salaries and wages of their employees and laborers effective as of September first, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, pursuant to Executive Orders Numbered Forty-nine and Fifty, not to exceed the sums hereunder specified:

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ₱1,183.00
NATIONAL LIBRARY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792.00
SUPREME COURT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528.00
COURT OF APPEALS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376.00
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BUREAUS AND OFFICES UNDER THE DIRECT CONTROL OF THE PRESIDENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ₱2,360.00
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Office of the President. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.00
General Auditing Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 854.00
Bureau of Civil Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132.00
Budget Commission. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,362.00
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PHILIPPINE ARMY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ₱40.00
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ₱331.00
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Office of the Secretary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239.00
Bureau of non-Christian Tribes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.00
Special appropriations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.00
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DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ₱6,779.00
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Office of the Secretary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.00
Division of Purchase and Supply. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329.00
Bureau of Customs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,906.00
Bureau of Internal Revenue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740.00
Bureau of the Treasury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132.00
Bureau of Banking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ------------
Bureau of Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640.00
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ₱7,633.00
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Office of the Secretary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ------------
Bureau of Justice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.00
Inferior Courts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,431.00
Public Service Commission. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300.00
Bureau of Prisons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.00
Bureau of Prisons—Industrial Division. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.00
General Land Registration Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,724.00
Special appropriations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.00
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ₱17,756.00
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Office of the Secretary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,615.00
Bureau of Plant Industry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,126.00
Bureau of Animal Industry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344.00
Bureau of Forestry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,233.00
Bureau of Lands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,324.00
Bureau of Science. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780.00
Bureau of Commerce. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176.00
Weather Bureau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116.00
Special appropriations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,042.00
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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND COMMUNICATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . ₱41,240.00
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Office of the Secretary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -----------
Bureau of Public Works. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318.00
Bureau of Posts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,728.00
Bureau of Coast and Geodetic Survey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -----------
Special appropriations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,194.00
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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ₱16,312.00
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Office of the Secretary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -----------
Bureau of Education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834.00
Bureau of Health. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,375.00
Bureau of Public Welfare. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149.00
Philippine General Hospital. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,411.00
Bureau of Quarantine Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.00
Office of the National Physical Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.00
Special appropriations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,423.00
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ₱356.00
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Office of the Secretary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.00
Bureau of Labor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336.00
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UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P652.00
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GRAND TOTAL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P96,388.00
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In case of bureaus and offices the unexpended balances of whose appropriations are not sufficient to cover the respective amounts needed for the said increases of salaries and wages, the deficiency may be taken from the five per cent reserve required by Executive Order Numbered Twelve, current series.1âшphi1

Done at the City of Manila, this thirty-first day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the first.

MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines

(See MOP, Bk 3, v.5, 60 for the Images. )


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