SECTION 1. Section one of Republic Act Numbered Three hundred and four, as amended by Republic Act Numbered Eight hundred, is further amended to read as follows:
"SECTION 1. Except as herein provided, the right of all officers, employees and persons under contract with the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, including officers and enlisted men of the Philippine Army and officers of the Philippine Scouts given assimilated ranks and relative seniority in the Philippine Army, who, on the eighth day of December, nineteen hundred and forty-one, or after but not later than the twenty-fifth day of May, nineteen hundred and forty-two in the case of officers and enlisted men of the Philippine Army and officers of the Philippine Scouts hereinabove mentioned, or any time thereafter in the case of those civilians who volunteered to join the resistance movements, who were serving in the classified or unclassified service of the national, provincial, city or municipal governments, including the University of the Philippines and the corporations owned or controlled by the Government, as well as elective provincial and municipal officials who held over in their respective offices after the termination of the term of their office, to such of their respective salaries, emoluments, fees, allowances, per diems, compensations or wages as have not been received by them by reason of the war, and those of guerrilla forces duly recognized by the Army of the United States, and of the free local civil governments, provincial and municipal, including military commissions which served as courts of justice thereof, duly organized for purposes of resistance against the enemy, corresponding to the period of January first, nineteen hundred and forty-two, up to and including September twenty-three, nineteen hundred and forty-five, or up to and including September twenty-six, nineteen hundred and forty-five, in the case of members of the Philippine Army or of recognized guerrilla forces and officers of the Philippine Scouts hereinabove mentioned, or any portion of such period or before and subsequent thereto when they were in operation as hereinabove provided is, under the conditions provided in this Act, hereby recognized. The recognition herein provided shall not extend to the salaries and wages of (a) officers and enlisted personnel of the United States Army or Navy and commissioned officers of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and the United States Public Health and Quarantine Service on detail with the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, except as otherwise provided in this section; (b) officers and employees found guilty after due trial in such cases made and provided by law, of treason, espionage, or any act constituting disloyalty to the Government of the Philippines or the United States committed at any, time during the enemy or Japanese occupation of the Philippines; and (c) officers and employees who received salaries from the Refugee Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines in the United States of America or elsewhere. Officers or employees who died on or before the date of the liberation of the province or city where assigned on the date of the occupation shall have the right to such salaries or wages under the conditions referred to in this section, up to the time of their death, if determinate, or the date they were last seen alive. The right to salaries or wages herein authorized shall be computed from the day of the occupation of each province or city by the Japanese up to the date of the liberation thereof, the date of occupation or liberation, as the case may be, of the capital to be deemed as the date of the occupation or liberation of the province, respectively: Provided, That the right to such salaries and wages shall be computed from the date last paid in the case of members of the Philippine Army and officers of the Philippine Scouts specifically mentioned herein."