R.A. 591

REPUBLIC ACT No. 591

AN ACT INCREASING THE ARMED FORCES OF THE PHILIPPINES AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

Section 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Philippine Treasury not otherwise appropriated an additional sum of twenty-five million eight hundred and forty-seven thousand five hundred eighty pesos for the Armed Forces of the Philippines for the organization, equipping, maintenance and operation of ten additional battalion combat teams of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, as hereunder specified;

Section 2. No portion of the appropriation provided in this Act shall be used for the purchase of staff cars, nor for the payment of any expenses for, or of the salary of, any officer or member of the Armed Forces who has been detailed to any office or employment or assigned to duties outside of the Department of National Defense.

Section 3. Any balance from said appropriations may be used to defray expenses for the subsistence, hospitalization, and rehabilitation of captured or surrendered dissidents only.

Section 4. The appropriations authorized in this Act for equipment and supplies, or so much thereof remaining unexpended, shall not be available for expenditure except for purposes mentioned in section three hereof, whenever the equipment are and supplies for which said appropriations are intended are obtainable under the provisions of the military assistance pact between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Government of the United States.

Section 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: January 19, 1951