Section 1
SECTION 1. In consideration of the highly meritorious services rendered by the late Claudio Sandoval, Judge of the Court of First Instance of Laguna at the time of his death on September seventeen, nineteen hundred and forty-five, who died without receiving any benefit from any retirement or pension law, his widow or, in her default, his legitimate children, shall be paid a gratuity in the amount of ten thousand pesos, equivalent to his salary for one year as Judge of the Court of First Instance.