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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 274, May 11, 1940 ]

FIXING THE SCHEDULE OF PER DIEMS FOR PROVINCIAL, CITY AND MUNICIPAL OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES

For the purpose of uniformity, it is hereby ordered that the per diems for officers and employees of provincial, city and municipal governments, when allowed, be fixed with the approval of the corresponding head of department at rates not to exceed the following:

(a) For officers and employees receiving a salary of two thousand pesos or less per annum, a per diem of not to exceed two pesos;

(b) For those receiving more than two thousand pesos per annum, but not exceeding four thousand pesos per annum, a per diem of not to exceed three pesos;

(c) For those receiving more than four thousand pesos per annum, but not exceeding six thousand pesos per annum, a per diem of not to exceed four pesos; and

(d) For those receiving more than six thousand pesos per annum, a per diem of not to exceed five pesos.

Any officer or employee whose compensation is fixed at other than the per annum basis may be given the rate of per diem authorized for that receiving compensation on the corresponding per-annum basis.

Done at the City of Manila, this eleventh day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the fifth.

(Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President

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