MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 5, May 25, 1945 ]

PROVIDING FOR THE DETAILS REQUIRED IN EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 30, CURRENT SERIES, OF THE DIFFERENT AMOUNTS AUTHORIZED IN COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 654 AS MAY CORRESPOND TO THE PERIOD STARTING FROM THE RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH ON PHILIPPINE SOIL ON OCTOBER 23, 1944, TO JUNE 30, 1945, FOR THE OPERATION OF THE SAID GOVERNMENT.

1. Pursuant to the provisions of Executive Order No. 30, current series, the following appropriations or so much thereof authorized in Commonwealth Act No. 654 as may correspond to the period starting from February 27 to June 30, 1945, are hereby set aside for the operating expenses of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines during said period:

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Senate ................................................................................. P200,000.00
House of Representatives ...................................................... 670,261.00
Office of the President ............................................................. 1,012,422.12
Office of the Vice-President ................................................. 9,038.58
Department of the Interior ...................................................... 95,126.01
Department of Finance .......................................................... 901,157.20
Department of Justice ............................................................. 1,846,435.17
Department of Agriculture and Commerce .............................  1,816,968.02
Department of Public Works and Communications ................ 1,221,929.15
Department of Instruction and Information ....................  12,846,089.02
Department of Labor .......................................... 166,687.27
Department of National Defense ........................................... 279,823.09
Department of Health and Public Welfare ......................... 1,674,888.27
General Auditing Office .........................................  255,684.65
University of the Philippines ...................................... 31,410.39
Commission on Elections ............................................. 37,826.96
Supreme Court of the Philippines ................................... 91,036.99
Contingent Fund-For covering deficits in the foregoing
appropriations which the President may authorize ............
169,642.85
Grand Total ................................................................... P23,326,427.54

2. Any savings realized from the appropriations provided under paragraph 1 of this Order are hereby authorized to be used to cover expenditures incurred from the reestablishment of the Government of the Commonwealth on Philippine soil on October 23, 1944, to February 26, 1945.

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

(Sgd.) SERGIO OSMEŅA
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JOSE S. REYES
Secretary to the President


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