SECTION 1. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are appropriated out of any funds in the Philippine Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended for assistance to the victims of, and for the rehabilitation or replacement of services or installations damaged by, typhoons, floods, droughts, earthquakes and volcanic action during the calendar years nineteen hundred and fifty-one and nineteen hundred and fifty-two, including the purchase of supplies and materials necessary to increase food production in the areas affected:
A. SOCIAL WELFARE
1. For the purchase of building materials, food supplies, clothing and other relief goods, including the expenses for the procurement and distribution of the same: Provided, That no part of this amount shall be used for salaries and wages
P2,000,000.00
2. For aid to the Philippine National Red Cross including the acquisition of blood Plasma
375,000.00
Total for Social Welfare
P2,375,000.00
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B. FINANCE
1. For aid to provinces, chartered cities and municipalities whose revenue collections have been greatly reduced due to havoc and destruction wrought by typhoons, floods, droughts, earthquakes and volcanic action during the calendar years nineteen hundred and fifty-one and nineteen hundred and fifty- two
P1,500,000.00
C. AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
1. For the purchase of seeds and other planting materials, as well as the cost of their propagation and distribution necessitated by the occurrence of typhoons, floods, droughts, earthquakes and volcanic action during the calendar years nineteen hundred and fifty-one and nineteen hundred and fifty-two: Provided, That no part of this amount shall be used for salaries and wages
P750,000.00
D. PUBLIC WORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS
1. For the replacement of scales, mail boxes, galvanized iron boxes, steel safes, distributing cases, post-office boxes, rotary locks, bag racks and other damaged post-office equipment
P5,650.00
2. For the erection of, and stringing wires on, blown-down or damaged poles
50,350.00
Total for Public Works and Communications
P56,000.00
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B. HEALTH
1. For the purchase of medicines and medical supplies, including first aid equipment, to replace damaged ones, and to provide adequate facilities for those who suffered injuries or contracted illness
P40,000.00
2. For aid for the operation and maintenance of hospitals in various provinces, cities and municipalities in areas stricken by typhoons, floods, earthquakes and volcanic action during the calendar years nineteen hundred and fifty-one and nineteen hundred and fifty-two where local funds are insufficient, including emergency hospitals, maternity and children hospitals, puericulture centers, charity clinics and public dispensaries
2,000,000 00
3. For the purchase of hospital supplies and materials to replace those damaged or destroyed by typhoons, floods, earthquakes and volcanic action during the calendar years nineteen hundred and fifty-one and nineteen hundred and fifty-two
150,000.00
Total for Health
P2,190,000.00
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F. EDUCATION
1. For rentals of buildings and other necessary expenses for the reopening of classes which were suspended as a consequence of typhoons, floods, earthquakes and volcanic action during the calendar years nineteen hundred
and fifty-one and nineteen hundred and fifty-two and for reconstruction of most urgent school buildings destroyed: Provided, That out of this appropriation, an amount not exceeding two million two hundred and fifty thousand pesos shall be alloted for the calendar year nineteen hundred and fifty-one
P6,250,000.00.
GRAND TOTAL OF THE APPROPRIATIONS
AUTHORIZED IN THIS ACT:THIRTEEN
MILLLION ONE HUNDRED AND
TWENTY-ONE THOUSAND PESOS
P13,121,000.00
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