Executive Order No. 43, s. 1945

Signed on

MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 43

APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR THE OPERATING EXPENSES OF THE ALABANG LABORATORIES FOR THE PERIOD FROM FEBRUARY 27 TO JUNE 30, 1945

WHEREAS, whatever balance remaining in the Revolving Fund of the Alabang Laboratories created under Commonwealth Act No. 245 had disappeared or has now become worthless as a result of Japanese occupation; and

WHEREAS, it is deemed imperative to continue the activities of this institution to meet the need for vaccines and sera to prevent any possible outbreak of epidemics in the country;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, SERGIO OSMEÑA, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution and pursuant to the provisions of the Emergency Powers Law, do hereby order that:

  1. The sum of ₱138,718.56, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby set aside from any fund in the Philippine Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the operation of the Alabang Laboratories as authorized in Commonwealth Act No. 245, for the period from February 27 to June 30, 1945, to be distributed as follows:

SALARIES AND WAGES

Epidemiology, Statistics and Public Health Administration

1. One epidemiologist at ₱1,800 ₱610.71
2. One biometrician at ₱1,800 610.71
3. One helper at ₱540 183.21

Sanitary Bacteriology and Immunology

4. One scientist at ₱5,000 1,696.40
5. One bacteriologist at ₱3,600 1,221.43
6. Two scientists at ₱3,600 2,442.86
7. One assistant scientist at ₱3,000 1,017.86
8. Three junior scientists at ₱2,400 2,442.87
9. One junior scientist at ₱1,800 610.71
10. Two junior scientists at ₱1,200 814.28
11. One assistant veterinarian at ₱960 325.71
12. One assistant technician at ₱900 305.36
13. One laboratory technician at ₱720 244.29
14. One technician at ₱600 203.57
15. One technician at ₱486 164.89
16. One helper at ₱540 183.21
17. Four helpers at ₱480 651.44
18. Eighteen helpers at ₱360 2,198.52
19. Miscellaneous labor service in connection with the manufacture of vaccines and sera, analysis of foods, drugs etc. and general up-keep of the Alabang Laboratories compound 15,773.41

Power Plant

20. One plant engineer at ₱2,400 814.29
21. One assistant engineer at ₱1,200 407.14
22. One assistant engineer at ₱840 285.00
23. One machinist at ₱720 244.29
24. One machinist at ₱540 183.21
25. Three helpers at ₱420 427.50
26. One oiler at ₱480 162.86
27. One helper at ₱360 122.14

Parasitology

28. One junior scientist at ₱2,400 814.29
29. Two junior scientists at ₱1,800 1,221.42
30. Two helpers at ₱360 244.28

Sanitary Engineering, Industrial, Physiology and Chemistry

31. One scientist at ₱4,000 1,357.13
32. One junior scientist at ₱1,800 610.71
33. Two junior scientists at ₱1,200 814.28
34. Three junior chemists at ₱720 732.87
35. Two helpers at ₱360 244.28
36. One technician at ₱720 244.29

Clerical Unit

37. One clerk and cashier at ₱1,200 407.14
38. One property clerk at ₱720 244.29
39. Two helpers at ₱420 285.00
40. One helper at ₱360 122.14
41. One artist-photographer at ₱600 203.57
Total for salaries and wages ₱41,893.56

SUNDRY EXPENSES

42. Traveling expenses of personnel ₱400.00
43. Freight, express, and delivery service 650.00
44. Postal, telegraph, telephone, cable and radio service 50.00
45. Illumination and power service 650.00
46. Consumption of supplies and materials 30,000.00
47. Maintenance and repair of equipment 3,000.00
48. Other services 1,000.00
Total for sundry expenses ₱35,750.00

FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT

49. For the purchase of furniture and equipment ₱32,075.00
Total for furniture and equipment ₱32,075.00

SPECIAL PURPOSE

50. For improving the compound at Alabang ₱30,000.00
Total for special purpose ₱30,000.00
Total appropriation ₱139,718.56
  1. Any and all receipts that may be realized from the operation of the services herein provided shall revert to the unappropriated surplus of the Philippine Treasury to reimburse the General Fund of the appropriations herein made.

Done at the City of Manila, this 26th day of May, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Five, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the tenth.

(Sgd.) SERGIO OSMEÑA
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JOSE S. REYES
Secretary to the President

Source: Malacañang Records Office

Office of the President of the Philippines. (1945). [Executive Order Nos. : 1W – 109]. Manila : Malacañang Records Office.

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