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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 48, July 20, 1936 ]

FIXING QUARTERS ALLOWANCE FOR GENERAL OFFICERS OF THE HIGH COMMAND OF THE ARMY OF THE PHILIPPINES

WHEREAS section ninety of the National Defense Act provides that the annual rates of pay and allowances for officers of the Regular Force and those of the Reserve ordered to extended tours of active duty, except probationary third lieutenants, shall be as prescribed by the President in executive orders;

WHEREAS pending the issuance of appropriate executive orders, the rates of pay and allowances now prescribed for officers of the Constabulary shall apply to officers of the Army of the Philippines under said section ninety; and

WHEREAS upon assumption of the officers of the High Command of the Army of the Philippines, it becomes necessary to provide them with rates of allowances that are commensurate with their rank;

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority conferred upon me by the provisions of law above cited, the quarters allowance for—

(a)   The Chief of Staff of the Army of the Philippines shall be fixed at two hundred pesos a month;1âшphi1

(b)   Major Generals shall be fixed at one hundred seventy-five pesos a month; and

(c)    Brigadier Generals shall be fixed at one hundred fifty pesos a month.

Done at the City of Manila, this twentieth day of July, 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

By the President:

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
Secretary of the Interior

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