Section 8
SEC. 8. To provide for expenses incident to the separation of the Constabulary from the army, for separate housing of Constabulary headquarters, and for purchases of additional motor and other equipment, supplies, and property essential to the efficiency of the Constabulary, there is appropriated the sum of five hundred thousand pesos to be spent for the purposes above enumerated as the President may direct: Provided, That during the remainder of the year nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, all salaries and allowances for quarters and rations for all personnel transferred from the army to the Constabulary shall continue to be paid from army appropriations. For the year nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, the sum of three million, two hundred and fifty thousand pesos is appropriated from any excess of the actual collections over the estimated ordinary income of the National Government, for the payment of the salaries and allowances of the personnel and all other expenses of every kind of the Philippine Constabulary: Provided, further, That, in the event no such excess in actual collections of the ordinary income is realized over the amount estimated, or the said excess is not sufficient to cover the full amount herein appropriated, all, or part of, the said expenses, as the case may be, shall continue to be charged against the authorized appropriations for the Philippine Army: Provided, furthermore, That for all years subsequent to nineteen hundred and thirty-nine the budget of the Philippine Constabulary shall be presented to the National Assembly in detailed estimates, and shall be carried under a separate heading entitled "Philippine Constabulary": And, provided, finally, That no transfer of; funds between the amounts carried under this heading and those carried under other purposes in annual army appropriation acts shall be authorized or permitted.