REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1808 - AN
ACT TO GRANT A LIFE PENSION TO GENERAL EMILIO AGUINALDO AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES |
WHEREAS, by Act Numbered Two
thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, approved on March 24, 1920, the
Philippine Legislature granted a life pension of twelve thousand pesos
a year, payable in monthly installments at the end of each month, to
General Emilio Aguinaldo is recognition of his services to the cause of
the Philippine Revolution; WHEREAS, for some reason or another, the said life pension granted him was stopped effective January first, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, by the express repeal of Act Numbered Two thousand nine hundred and twenty-two by Commonwealth Act Numbered Two hundred and eighty-eight; WHEREAS, the Filipino people owe a lasting debt of gratitude to General Aguinaldo for his services to the Philippines as the country's Revolutionary leader and as President of the First Philippine Republic; and WHEREAS, his need for a life pension has become urgent due to his old age and his consequential physical inability to engage in any gainful trade or occupation: Now, therefore: Section 1. There is hereby granted to General Emilio Aguinaldo a life pension of twelve thousand pesos a year payable in equal monthly installments.cralaw Sec. 2. The sum necessary to pay said pension from
the approval of this Act until and including the fiscal year nineteen
hundred fifty-seven to nineteen hundred fifty-eight is hereby
appropriated out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise
appropriated. Therefore, the sum necessary therefor shall be included
in the annual General Appropriation Act. Approved: June 22, 1957 |