Use of lump-sum appropriations for salaries and wages.
Section 7
SEC. 7. Use of lump-sum appropriations for salaries and wages.—Hereafter, any provision of existing law to the contrary notwithstanding, whenever lump-sum appropriations provided under the general headings "I. — Salaries and Wages" and "IV.—Special Appropria--tions" in this Act are used for the payment of salaries and wages, such appropriations shall be limited only to the employment of the laborers paid by the month, by the day or by the hour and of emergency employees j otiier than laborers: PROVIDED, That said emergency! employees shall in no case be paid a salary in excess, of P36 a month, nor shall their employment continue for more than six months: PROVIDED, FURTHER,. That these limitations shall not be applicable to the National Assembly, to the Bureau of Health, to craftsmen, helpers, and other employees of the Bureau of Printing, to justices of the peace, to officers and employees of the Bureau of Public Works whose salaries' and wages are payable from appropriations for projects authorized in this Act, to officers and employees of the' Quarantine Service, but said emergency employees shall not be granted promotion in salary from the date of the approval of this Act.