AN ACT TO AMEND ITEM 11, UNDER THE SUBHEADING "IV-SPECIAL AND GENERAL PURPOSES", HEADING "B-OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT", OF COMMONWEALTH ACT NUMBERED THREE HUNDRED, KNOWN AS THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT FOR NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY-NINE, SO AS TO MAKE THE APPROPRIATION AUTHORIZED IN SAID ITEM AVAILABLE FOR EXPENDITURE BEGINNING ON THE DATE OF THE APPROVAL OF SAID GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT.

• Number: Commonwealth Act No. 376
• Sections: 2

Section 1

SECTION 1. Item 11, under the subheading "IV-Special . and General Purposes", of the heading "B-Office of the President", of Commonwealth Act Numbered Three hundred, is amended to read as follows:

"11. For the necessary expenses of the Philippines Historical Committee as provided for by Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred sixty-nine, in connection with the work of identifying, designating, appropriately marking and preserving the historic antiquities, or for the acquisition, by purchase or otherwise of the antiquities owned by private persons, including the salary of a secretary of said Committee at not to exceed :P2,400 per annum, and expenses of the committee in 1938, this provision to take effect upon the approval of this Act................ P50,000.00."

Section 2

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, August 23, 1938.