MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
[ ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 160, November 14, 1941 ]
PROHIBITING THE EXPENDITURE AND/OR SUBSTITUTION OF THE AMOUNTS CONSTITUTING THE ITEMS OF “SAVINGS TO BE MADE” REQUIRED IN THE CURRENT GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT
WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 321, issued on January 27, 1941 as a precautionary measure to avert impending deficits in order to keep the budget of the National Government in balance and maintain the stability of its finances, adopted, among others, the policy of suspending the granting of salary increases except only in certain cases therein specified;
WHEREAS, in conformity with the said policy the difference, if any, between the authorized salary for any position provided in the current General Appropriation Act and the actual salary of the incumbent thereon on the date the 1942 Budget was submitted by the Chief Executive to the National Assembly was considered in the preparation of the said 1942 Budget and the 1942 General Appropriation Act as “savings to be made”;
WHEREAS, section 5 and 6 of Commonwealth Act No. 654 contemplate that the portions of the appropriation items therein provided making up the various amounts of “savings to be made” are not available for expenditure.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, MANUEL L. QUEZON, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution and existing laws, do hereby order that:
1. Except as otherwise specifically authorized heretofore in each case, the portions of the authorized salaries for positions provided in Commonwealth Act No. 654 which constitute parts of any of the various items of “savings to be made” therein required as hereinbelow specified shall not be available for expenditure, nor may they be substituted with savings from any other item or items.1âшphi1
2. The items of appropriations affected by the “savings to be made” and the corresponding amounts involved, under the different departments, bureaus, and offices of the Government are as follows.
(See Table in MOP, Bk 3, v.5, 258)
Done at the City of Manila, this 14th day of November in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-one, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the sixth.
(Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON
By the President:
(Sgd.) JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President
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